THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, 

MANIFOLD AND ONE. 



TRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A., 
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 



THE CHRISTIAN LIFE 



MANIFOLD AND ONE. 



SIX SERMONS PREACHED IN PETERBOROUGH 
CATHEDRAL, 



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BROOKE FOSS WESTCOTT, B.D, 

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TO THE 
VERY REVEREND A. P. SAUNDERS, D.D., 

DEAN, 
AND TO THE 

VENERABLE ARCHDEACON DAVYS, 
REV. M. ARGLES, 
REV. H. PRATT, 

CANONS OF PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL, 



ARE DEDICATED WITH SINCERE RESPECT AND 
GRATITUDE. 



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PREFACE. 



These Sermons, the first-fruits of new work, 
are printed, partly that I may through them 
ask for the active sympathy of those among 
whom I have been called to labour, in the dis- 
charge of duties which at the present time may, 
as it seems, be made by God s blessing of pecu- 
liar benefit to the English Church; and partly 
that I may be myself reminded hereafter in 
times of failure and despondency of the thoughts 
which were ministered to me in the first Ca- 
thedral services in which I was allowed to take 
part. 

This is not the place to discuss measures of 
Cathedral Reform, but I cannot refrain from 
repeating what underlies all that I have here 



viil PREFACE. 

said, that the great want of our Church is re- 
cognized variety of functions and not uniformity. 
To parochialize Cathedrals would be to destroy 
one distinct element in our organization, and 
to add nothing in its place. What is needed 
is rather to specialize their office, and to claim 
for them, in accordance with the statutes of the 
New Foundation, the prerogative of higher 
education, that is, theological study in its largest 
sense and the final professional training of Can- 
didates for Holy Orders. Our Church, as such, 
has made no provision elsewhere for the fulfil- 
ment of these necessary parts of her work. But 
let it once be recognized that it is the privilege 
of Cathedral bodies to fulfil them, and our 
Cathedrals will become, what they ought to 
be, and may be, the springs of the intellectual 
religious life of England. ' The which if they 
' do,' to quote the preamble of our Statutes, ' we 
' verily trust that great increase of piety shall 
' come to the kingdom, and those who erected 



PREFACE. IX 

' these churches for the glory of the All-good 

* and Almighty God, and the advancement of 

* the Christian Faith, and furnished the same 
' with various orders of Ministers, shall in no 
' wise be disappointed of their expectation and 
' desirev' 



B. F. W. 



Harrow, 
Sept. 15, iJ 



That it may please Thee to illuminaie all Bishops, 
Priests, and Deacons, with true knowledge and under- 
standing of Thy Word ; and that both by their preaching 
and living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly: 

We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord. 
Epiphany, 1869. 



CONTENTS. 

SERMON I. 

LIFE CONSECRATED BY THE ASCENSION. 

PAGE 
St Luke xxiv. 51.— It came to pass, while he blessed them, 

He was parted from them, and carried up into heaven . . i 
SERMON II. 

MANY gifts: one SPIRIT. 

I Cor. XII. 4, — There are diversities of gifts, but the same 

Spirit 15 

SERMON III. 

THE GOSPEL OF THE RESURRECTION. 

1 Cor. XV. ji. — Whether it were I or they, so we preach, and 

so ye believed . . . . . . . . '■27 

SERMON IV. 

SUFFICIENCY OF GOD. 

2 Cor. III. 5. — Our sufficiency is of God . . . . -41 



xii CONTENTS. 

SERMON V. 

ACTION THE TEST OF FAITH. 

PAGE 
St Luke x. 37. — Go, and do thou likewise . . . • 5^ 

SERMON VI. 

PROGRESS FROM THE CONFESSION OF GOD. 

St Luke xvii. 15. — One of them when he saw that hewas healed 

turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God . . .63 



SERMON I. 



LIFE CONSECRATED BY THE ASCENSION. 



W.S. 



SERMON I. 



LIFE CONSECRATED BY THE ASCENSION. 



St Luke xxiv. 51. 

It came to pass, while He blessed them, He was parted 
from them, and carried itp to heaven. 

Such was the last scene of the earthly presence 
of the Lord. So it was that having loved His own 
which were in the world, He loved the^n unto the 
end. Not silently and alone as Enoch, who walked 
with God, and was not, for God took him : not with 
the whirlwind and chariot of fire like Elijah, who 
was swept away before the eyes of his awestricken 
follower ; but calmly, naturally, as we must think, 
with words of assurance and in the act of benediction 
Christ ascended unto His Father and our Father. And 
this revelation of human life linked to heaven by the 
Saviour's blessing is that on which we necessarily 
dwell to-day. Christmas, Easter, and Ascension-tide 
have each their peculiar lesson of joy, and we must 

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4 LIFE CONSECRATED [Serm. 

distinguish the lessons if we would apprehend their 
fulness. Christmas is the festival of the family, for 
then Christ by being born hallowed all the ties of 
home. Easter is the festival of the Church, for then 
Christ by the victory over death established a spiri- 
tual power among men, invincible for ever. Ascen- 
sion-tide is the festival of the race, for then Christ by 
raising all that belongs to the perfection of humanity 
to heaven, gave us a glorious sign of our true destiny 
as men. 

This being so, two thoughts out of many which 
offer themselves may be taken for our consideration 
now. The Ascension teaches us the consecration 
of all the parts of life ; and it teaches us also the 
consecration of all the offices of life. Not only is 
every detail of each individual life impressed with a 
divine value ; but the differences by which any life as 
a whole is separated from another belong also to the 
completeness of the divine order. We may reject the 
gift of God : we may mar the beauty which He is 
ready to perfect : we may mistake the purpose which 
he is ready to accomplish ; but if we look to the 
Ascension and that last blessing with which Christ's 
earthly work was consummated, we shall know that 
all we do and all we are has in possibility, — GOD 
grant that it may have in deed — a vital relationship 
with heaven. 

In many respects it is a happy circumstance that 
Ascension-day comes in the middle of our week. It 



I.] BY THE ASCENSION. 5 

may thus indeed be neglected, but when we observe 
it, we are led at least to ponder on its meaning. Nor 
can that meaning be hidden from us ; for it is plainly 
expressed in the services and in the recreations by 
which the Festival is marked among us\ Hereto- 
day the full joy of work and the full joy of devotion, 
the hearty gladness of seasonable mirth and the so- 
lemn fellowship of divine Communion, meet together 
in a true harmony. Earth to-day may be seen by us 
united with heaven, not as in a dream to the sleeping 
patriarch, but in the open triumph of a Saviour. 
To-day to the eye of faith angels once again are 
shewn ascending and descending in ministry to the 
sons of men. 

I. In this then lies the first lesson of which I 
spoke, the religious unity of life. If we enter into the 
spirit of Ascension-day, we shall be enabled to real- 
ize practically that Christian life is essentially one. 
Over all the hands of Christ are raised to bless. In 
Christ the results of thirty years of silent and obscure 
labour, no less than of three years of recognized 
ministry, were transfigured and raised aloft for ever. 
By that last pledge of love, by that last victory of 
love, a real unity was restored to human existence. 
Nothing can be clearer than the significance of the 
fact, but we still need greatly to be reminded of 

^ Ascension Day is observed at Peterborough by an annual meeting 
of the members of the Cathedral body, the Grammar School, and the 
Training College. 



6 LIFE CONSECRATED [Serm. 

the truth thus made known to us. We are always 
tempted to break up hfe into little fractions; to sepa- 
rate routine and effort ; to contrast secular and spiri- 
tual; to assign this part to the duties of the world 
and that to the service of GOD. But to-day we may 
learn that such a division is faithless and vain. As 
the body is one, so also is the life. Physical health is 
the harmonious action of every member according to 
its proper law, and religion is the true health of our 
whole being. 

Such a view of life as this is undoubtedly solemn, 
but it is also inexpressibly grand. No one would de- 
sire deliberately to lower the recognized dignity of 
action, and we may rejoice when any habitual mode 
of thought helps us to appreciate it more worthily. 
Do what we will we know that we must be beset by 
sorrow and suffering and care. We may for a time close 
our eyes to their presence, but in the end they will 
make themselves felt with more crushing power. If 
however we once see that these also belong to the 
completeness of our discipline ; that through them 
God makes Himself known ; that by them that per- 
son is fashioned which, by His grace, shall be lifted 
to heaven ; — if we once see that it is in the silent, un- 
numbered, unnoticed trivialities (as they seem) of daily 
business that character is formed which in due time a 
crisis will reveal: then already something of a divine 
harmony is re-established among the elements which 
sin has disordered. 



I.] BY THE ASCENSION. 7 

So it comes to pass that we can by GOD's blessing 
draw strength from failure. When we place the seen 
in its true relation to the unseen, the circumstances 
of life appear in their true proportion and significance. 
Whatever is inchoate, imperfect, discordant, becomes 
a sign of that fuller being into which all our efforts 
and all our achievements are destined to pass. That 
only which is wholly of the earth can find its satis- 
faction on earth; all which belongs essentially to 
some vaster whole must as yet bear about with it the 
marks of incompleteness, and to our eyes the appear- 
ance of failure. The weaknesses, the littlenesses, the 
incoherences of daily life, so long as they are felt and 
struggled with, are evidences of a victory yet to come. 
They bear witness to us that we cannot rest till we 
rise to the level of Him in whom we live. They never 
cease to teach us that the end to which we are called 
is not now nor here. Moved by their importunate 
promptings, we must confess that it is not enough to die 
with Christ : that it is not enough to rise with Christ : 
we must also ascend with Him even now, ' in heart and 
mind,' — with the power of feeling and with the power 
of thought — to the presence of GOD, that so at last we 
may reflect His glory and be transformed into His / 
likeness. 

2. The whole life of a Christian is then, when we 
view it in the light of Ascension-day, one in its 
character, in its progress, in its issue. It is also dis- 
tinct in its function. As the circumstances and facul^ 



8 LIFE CONSECRATED [Serm. 

ties of men are permanently different, so the religious 
office of each, which represents the sum of all his 
endowments consecrated to an eternal destiny, is 
necessarily different in form. There is one body but 
it is composed of many members. There is one life but 
it is expressed in many ways. Certain as this truth is, 
we are practically in constant danger of forgetting 
it. The same spirit which leads us to isolate parts of 
our life as alone religious, leads us also to construct 
one type of religious work, so that all action which 
does not fall within this narrow boundary is left out 
of account. Thus it necessarily follows that our 
theories prove unreal ; that our conception of religion 
is impoverished ; that our effective energies are les- 
sened by lack of sympathy and by secret misgivings. 
But to-day we are raised to a higher platform. 
Those to whom Christ gave his last blessing, those 
whom He sent as the Father sent Him, fulfilled their 
commission not after one pattern but after many. 
Even in that first outburst of renovated life each 
believer worked according to his natural gifts. One 
ministered, another preached, another wrote: one 
satisfied an immediate want, another laid up treasures 
for a later time. Every form of service was hallowed, 
because all were rendered to GoD. And this is the 
image of Christian activity which we are at present 
called to imitate according to the measure of our 
power. In this way only can we gain a true sense of 
the worth of the individual life, when it is seen to 



I.] BY THE ASCENSION. 9 

contribute its distinct share to the manifold richness 
of the total sum. In this way only can we realize in 
any degree what is that Body of Christ which, while 
it finds in Him its perfect unity, is extended and sus- 
tained by that which every part supplies, to complete 
its beauty or to harmonize its action. If we were all 
alike in our highest attributes, if religion were in all 
the same exercise of the same gifts, then the defec- 
tion of one or another would make little difference 
to the general result ; but if, as we see it must be, I 
the faithlessness of one subtracts from the whole j 
that which no other can supply, all is changed; we j 
feel at once the overwhelming majesty of life even in 
its ultimate details : we feel that we can never be 
alone and confine to ourselves the issues of our 
actions : we feel that in us, in each of us and in our ! 
common duties, the highest well-being of humanity; 
is imperilled. 

Such thoughts as these, which flow naturally from 
the celebration of Ascension-day, seem to have a 
special fitness for ourselves. Elsewhere it might be 
difficult to enter into the conception of the religious 
unity of life. Elsewhere it might be difficult to see 
how different groups in society act and react upon 
one another and contribute to the fulness of bene- 
ficent service. But our Cathedral life is so ordered 
as to bring these ideas practically home to us. Here 
our daily services so fall into our common work as 
necessarily to give, so far as they are real, a religious 



10 LIFE CONSECRATED [Serm. 

character to all we do. Here our parts in a corpo- 
rate society are so clearly marked out that we 
can never forget how much we depend one upon an- 
other for the adequate fulfilment of the general office 
with which w^e are charged. Here are concentrated, 
as we see to-day, the representative spiritual powers 
which are organized to meet the wants of every sec- 
tion of the Church. Here in a word we cannot 
but recognize that our whole life, if it be true to its 
idea, must be religious. Here we cannot but recog- 
nize that each one of us has some task to fulfil 
which no one else can fulfil, and which is destined in 
its fulness not for himself but for others. 

If the opportunity be given me I hope to speak 
hereafter more at length of the ennobling and cheer- 
ing thoughts which spring from the consideration 
of the complex constitution of our Cathedral body. 
I At present I can barely indicate what seems to be its 
'central conception as brought out by the services of 
jto-day. It is strength in cooperation, strength in the 
I consecration to one end of manifold gifts, strength 
jin religious fellowship. How greatly we need such 
strength is evident from all around us. No one 
can have reflected on the position of our national 
church without feeling that its chief peril lies in the 
isolation of its constituent parts ; and this defect 
is the more dangerous because it springs from our 
national character. Thus we find a tendency to sepa- 
ration personally, in our religious feelings, and paro- 



I.] BV THE ASCENSION. II 

chially, in our religious organization \ There is 
among us a want of sympathy and a want of combi- 
nation. We do not trust others with our highest aspi- 
rations : we do not look to others to carry on and 
complete what we have begun or partially apprehend- 
ed. Now it is not too much to say that (as I believe 
myself most profoundly) a Cathedral like our own 
furnishes exactly those elements of varied and yet 
converging energy which may by God'S blessing form 
a spring of harmonious activity throughout the Church; 
powerful by the Jiifluence of a disciplined dependence, 
elevating by the presence of a divine aim. Our 
gathering here to-day interprets my words and con- 
firms them. By our school we are brought into the | 
closest contact with those who will be the head and! 
heart of our city population ; by our College with the- 
great masses which it is the first privilege of the 
Church to quicken and raise ; by our clergy, with the 
pioneers of thought and speculation, which it is their 
office to make tributary to the glory of the Truth. 1 
To labour in these manifold functions, to inspire them 
by the power of sacrifice, to harmonize them by the 
spirit of_a^divine life, to strive towards the union of 
tasks and classes, is the mission to which we are call- 
ed. The work is for our country and we come to GOD 
through Christ for strength to fulfil it : the work is 

1 The relation of the Cathedral body to the Parish is admirably 
marked out by Mr Beresford Hope in his English Cathedral of the 
XlXth Century. 



I? LIFE CONSECRATED [Serm. 

for our generation, and we bind it to the past by 
our meeting in this grand temple which is itself the 
monument of twelve centuries of Christian triumphs. 

Such a view of our common work is, I admit, a 
lofty one, but it is not chimerical. The stirring times 
in which we are privileged to live call for heroic 
efforts, but I know that the efforts will not be un- 
availing. They call for faith and truth, but it is 
on these foundations that all great results must rest. 
, They call for unselfish and unreserved co-operation 
j of class with class, and rank with rank, but it is 
through mutual dependence that our personal powers 
are most operative. They call for self-denial and disci- 
pline, but so it is alone that we can learn what is the 
peace of perfect freedom. They call for trustful love 
for man, for loving trust in GOD, but it is by love 
that the heart of man is opened, and by trust that the 
help of God is won. The very dangers which seem 
imminent rouse us to a sublimer faith. Human weak- 
ness is the vantage-ground of divine strength ; and 
to-day we consecrate our aspirations by looking to 
the ascending Saviour. 

May God grant that that vision may not soon 
fade from our sight. May it rather be for us too the 
pledge of transfigured life. Let us only carry its 
teaching to our several works ; let us see in it the 
divine pledge that life in its eternal aspect is one and 
manifold; and it must be so. If only each scholar 
will cherish as he learns the thought of his fellowship 



I.] BY THE ASCENSION. 1 3 

with the rehgious work centred here, and afterwards | 
carry the thought with him through the business off" 
his hfe : if only each teacher who goes from among ' 
us will keep alive in the isolation of his laborious 
duties the sense of sympathy with those who share 
his trials and supplement his toils : if only each priest ; 
in silent study and public ministration will remember: 
the countless workers whose manifold services it is 
his high commission to bring to the throne of GOD : 
if only each one of us will now join in one intense 
prayer for sympathy and communion ; it will be 
given us to know as we have never yet known the 
majesty and power of our life in Christ. Without me, 
the Lord has said, ye can do nothing. Through Him, 
all things are possible to him that believeth. May we 
all — may I in the prospect of new work — rest in the 
fulness of that boundless promise. May we all — 
may I in the fulfilment of new work — find ever, as 
on this Ascension-day, the Risen Christ to give His 
blessing-. 



Peterborough, 

Ascension-day, i< 



SERMON II. 



MANY GIFTS: ONE SPIRIT. 



SERMON 11. 

MANY GIFTS: ONE SPIRIT. 

I Cor. XII. 4. 

There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 

If we try to picture to ourselves the earliest forms of 
life we shall see at once that they are distinguished 
from that with which we are familiar now by a 
strange simplicity. There is little intercourse be- 
tween men, and little sympathy. Their wants are 
few and for the most part such as they can satisfy 
by their own direct effort. For them the idea of 
humanity is limited by the extent of their tribe : the 
idea of the universe by the iron circle of the sky. 
Step by step fresh mysteries of being, fresh possibili- 
ties of action, are opened before them. The stranger 
is no longer synonymous with 'the enemy' or 'the 
barbarian.' The margin of the world fades before 
the inquirer who would reach its boundary. Expe- 
rience reveals within the heart deep wants which 
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1 8 MANY GIFTS: ONE SPIRIT. [Serm. 

social trust and social love alone can satisfy. Class 
is linked to class and race to race by inseparable 
bonds. The various functions of teaching and 
production and distribution are almost indefinitely 
subdivided. A single detail is found to be sufficient 
for the labour of a life-time. All the offices and 
duties of men become inextricably complicated, till 
at length, as the least consideration will shew, in all 
we do, and in all we enjoy, we depend at present, 
consciously or unconsciously, on the ministration and 
sympathy of countless fellow-workers and fellow-feel- 
ers whom yet we can never know here face to face. 
There is something very sublime and at the same 
time very awful in the thought of this marvellous 
complexity of our modern life, even in its outward 
aspects ; and if we penetrate below the surface and 
come to feel that the same law holds in the spiritual 
as in the material relations of men, we shall readily 
acknowledge that we are in the presence of a truth 
which it concerns us most nearly to apprehend as far 
as we can do so. If religion be the most complete har- 
mony of life with the seen and the unseen, the modes 
in which it will be embodied will vary with the vary- 
ing modes of life. It also will necessarily exhibit, 
like the visible life of which it is the soul, a develop- 
ment, a progressive subdivision of parts, a mutual 
dependence of action, issuing in a mightier and fuller 
energy. At the same time it will be exposed to the 
peril of conventionality, to the peril of isolation, to the 



IL] MANY GIFTS: ONE SPIRIT. 19 

peril of indifference. All the causes which tend to 
stereotype or separate or narrow our lives, tend 
equally to stereotype and separate and narrow our re- 
ligion. And, if, on the other hand, we see that by the 
counsel of the Divine Love the highest forms of earth- 
ly good spring from the co-operation of the most 
diverse elements, so we believe is it also in religion. 
Here too the distinctness of our special work, how- 
ever small, is a condition of the perfection of a whole 
which we cannot yet imagine. Here too the fulfil- 
ment of our peculiar office is the pledge of the effi- 
cacy of the divine life of which we have been made 
partakers. Here too the full majesty of our redeemed 
nature is seen in the glory of that august spiritual 
Body of Christ in which We are all incorporated. 

It is in the light of such reflections as these that 
we can understand the words of St Paul which we 
have heard this morning, There are diversities of 
giftSy but the same Spirit. There is an essential dif- 
ference in all lives, and there is in them also, by the 
gift of God, an essential unity. There is a difference 
in them because there is a unity; because, that is, 
they are not bounded by that which falls under our 
present notice, which is fragmentary, imperfect, half- 
suppressed, but pass on to the more immediate pre- 
sence of God, where all that has been blessed by 
His Spirit coexists in absolute harmony and power. 

These then are the two thoughts which I wish 
now to commend to you. There are among us diver- 

2 — 2 



20 MANY GIFTS: ONE SPIRIT. [Serm. 

sities of gifts ; and these gifts belong to the same 
Spirit. St Paul is speaking, it is true, of special gifts 
while he is writing to an exceptional society, but we 
may rightly generalize his words when we refer them 
to a Christian state. And thus interpreted they have 
a direct application to ourselves. 

I. In our ordinary life, as I have already indi- 
cated, we fully recognize the law of progressive variety. 
It is indeed forced upon us by all the conditions under 
which we act and think. It is called into play equally 
by the natural endowments with which we are born, 
and by the circumstances under which we use our 
powers. It is the spring of all that is most impressive 
in national character: it is the spring of all^thatjs 
most energetic in personal influence. A great people 
stamps the history of the world with the impress of 
its special traits. A great man sways his fellows by 
the gifts through which he differs from them. There 
is nothing from which a true patriot would shrink 
more than from the endeavour to obliterate the marks 
which represent in his countrymen all the issues of 
the past. They may be transformed, ennobled, trans- 
figured, but in them lies the pledge that the nation 
has still something to do for the race. Remove the 
difference, slender it may be, by which citizen is dis- 
tinguished from citizen, and something is lost to the 
fulness of the body which nothing can replace. Ex- 
ternal equality is uniform degradation. 

But while this principle is acknowledged unhesi- 



II.] MANY GIFTS: ONE SPIRIT. 21 

tatingly in social and political life, we do not com- 
monly apply it to religious life. Religion is regarded 
as something abstract, uniform, colourless. Here it 
is supposed that the rich variety of function which 
marks the development of man finds no place. He is 
unclothed^ to use St Paul's image, and not clothed 
iLpon, that so he may fulfil his highest work. We sud- 
denly abandon the law which has guided the magnifi- 
cent growth of life when it approaches its last fulfil- 
ment. We trust to no generous spontaneity when we 
come as sons to our heavenly Father. We painfully 
mould and repress ourselves after one fashion; and 
enemies say, not without the semblance of excuse, 
that our religion looks traditional, formal, dead, power- 
less to claim all human interests for its domain, all 
human faculties for its instruments. And still if 
we reflect that what we are called upon to offer to 
God is nothing less than ourselves, our souls and 
bodies, it must at once be seen that in that perfect, 
holy, living sacrifice is included every element of 
character, of endowment, of circumstance, by which 
each one of us is made to differ from others. Thus 
it is that not only as men, or as citizens, or as mem- 
bers of families, but as believers in Christ, we have 
severally a definite and personal work to do, for 
which we have received in our powers and in our posi- 
tions the requisite equipment. Only let us be faithful 
to the ministry which we have received, without 
attempting to estimate its value or measure its 



22 MANY GIFTS: ONE SPIRIT. [Serm. 

efficacy : only let us be sure that religion is the con- 
secration of our whole nature and not the special 
attribute of any one part of it : only let us come to 
God such as we are, bowed down it may be with the 
burden of toil and care, without the opportunity, as it 
seems, of preparing an offering for His acceptance : 
and He will welcome and purify and hallow all that 
we lay before Him. But so far as we fall short of 
this : so far as we set apart any section of our interests 
and our energies as foreign to our religion : so far as 
we aim at satisfying an artificial standard of emotion 
or belief which answers to nothing within us : so far 
also we lessen the total sum of Christian powers and 
impoverish the fulness of that life to which we are 
called to contribute. Other offices may appear to 
us to be more fruitful than our own : we may wish 
for an ampler field on which to shew the devotion 
which we sincerely feel : our time, we may argue, is 
so engrossed by necessary routine that all nobler 
aspirations are dulled. But if followed to their spring 
such thoughts come simply from faithlessness and 
impatience. They may rise to tempt us till the sure 
answer comes that we are in the hands of GOD, 
who has given us our place. For us it is enough 
to keep it. We see but a part while He sees all 
Differences which to our eyes are enormous vanish 
in His presence. The results of silent service, of 
complete self-surrender, of patient trust, cannot be 
measured by our present experience. They survive 



II.] MANY GIFTS: ONE SPIRIT. 23 

us on earth and they follow us before the very throne 
of heaven. 

We are called then in Christ to bring to GOD our 
whole selves. This and nothing less than this is our 
rational service. And if so our religion will be as 
manifold and as personal as our lives, active now 
through this gift, now through that, and hallowing with 
the cross all that is truly human. 

2. But underneath this infinite variety, this intense 
individuality of religion, so to speak, there lies the 
one common Spirit which combines all the separate 
parts into a harmonious whole. We work each in our 
own way with untiring and truthful effort, and because 
we do so, and just so far as we do so, a higher unity 
is possible. There can be no unity in an aggregate of 
similar atoms. Thus we are brought to our second 
point. Our diversity of gifts is reconciled in one 
supreme destination. 

All the images under which the religious life is 
figured bear witness to this its twofold character. The 
power and beauty of the Christian society are always 
shewn to us in manifold subordination. At one time 
we are taught to regard it as a temple reared through 
long ages, each stone of which fills its special place 
and contributes its share to the grace and stability of 
the fabric. At another time as a vine, where by the 
complicated and delicate machinery of Providence 
earth and air and water are fashioned into leaf and 
flower and fruit. At another time as a body, where 



24 MANY GIFTS: ONE SPIRIT. [Serm. 

a royal will directs and disciplines and uses the func- 
tions of every member. At another time as a vast 
army, where each soldier trained and strengthened 
acts no longer for himself, but even to absolute self- 
sacrifice submits to the sovereign control of his leader. 
It is impossible to mistake the meaning of such 
images, which teach us our mutual dependence in 
every aspect. We are dependent on the past which 
determines our relative positions. We are dependent 
on the present which supplies the materials for our 
action and the law by which we can appropriate and 
employ them. We are dependent even on the future 
which may require that we perish, as some forlorn-hope, 
to ensure the triumph of those who shall come after 
us. This, I say, is clear if we practically realize what 
Holy Scripture teaches us ; and not less clear is it 
in Whom mutual dependence is brought to unity. 
Christ is the Corner S.tone on which the whole temple 
rests. Christ is the Root from which the vine draws 
its vital energy. Christ is the Head from which the 
body receives its divine impulse. Christ is the great 
Captain by whom through toil and suffering and loss 
the army is led to victory at the last. We are all 
different and therefore we may be one. We are all 
united in Christ and therefore, unless we are unfaith- 
ful, we must be one. 

It would be easy to pursue these reflections into 
detail, to point out in special cases the variety of gifts 
with which GOD has blessed us, to shew how they are 



IL] MANY GIFTS: ONE SPIRIT. 25 

joined together so as to produce in due course nobler 
issues otherwise unattainable. But I prefer to leave 
them in their broad and simple form. Each one can 
tell for himself what he has and what he is : each 
one can tell whether he strives to render all to the 
glory of God. In the meantime enough, I think, has 
been said if we take the thoughts to our hearts, to 
guard us against the dangers of unreality, of isolation, 
of indifference in religion which seem peculiarly urgent 
now. If it be true, and who can doubt that it is true, 
that religion is the divine soul of the whole of each 
separate life ; that something has been given to every 
man, more or less in human judgment, whereby a 
special duty is marked out for his fulfilment ; that all 
we do passes at once out of our reach to influence 
others for all time ; we shall strive ever more and 
more earnestly by GOD's help to realize in some de- 
gree the ideal which we see before us. While we 
labour to consecrate our whole life we shall not has- 
tily adopt any conventional mode of marking our 
purpose, but wait for the Spirit to embody itself 
in its true form. While we cultivate to the utmost the 
special gifts which we have received, we shall not be 
content till we have referred them to their social end, 
from which alone they derive their proper dignity. 
While we refuse to compare ofhce with office, and 
service with service, knowing how little we see and 
that little how imperfectly, we shall never forget that 
it is to Christ each act of the Christian life is ren- 



26 MANY GIFTS: ONE SPIRIT. [Serm. II. 

dered, in His sight, by His power, in obedience to His 
will. Doubtless we shall fall short often and sadly 
of the standard which we have set up, but our failure 
Avill be not without hope. We shall know, know with 
an ever-increasing assurance, that all life must be 
eternal and may be divine, and look humbly and 
trustfully to that Spirit from whom comes our rich 
diversity of gifts that He may strengthen us to use 
them rightly to His glory. 



Peterborotigh, 
Tenth Sunday after Trinity, 1869. 



SERMON III. 



THE GOSPEL OF THE RESURRECTION. 



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Whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye 
believed. 

Last Sunday I endeavoured to point out some of 
the broad religious lessons which are forced upon us 
by the conditions of modern life. I endeavoured to 
shew that the law of progressive variety which con- 
fessedly applies to all our material interests, applies 
also to our spiritual activity: that our religion finds 
its true expr ession in the cons ecratio n of our special 
gifts: that there is no human faculty which may not 
by God's help be made an instrument of divine ser- 
vice : t hat t h ere is no one believer in Christ whose 
ministry will not c ontribute to the effectu al energy of 
that august body of w hich we have all been made 
members. I endeavoured to shew that all our natural 
endowments, all our personal histories, all our con- 



30 THE GOSPEL OF [Serm. 

trasted circumstances are so many opportunities for 
peculiar work ; and thus to encourage every one to 
offer to God that which he has and is , in the sure 
trust that every gift and every power will be ennobled 
in the offering, and made to subserve to the heavenly 
cause to which our lives are pledged. 

The epistle of to-day, from which my text is 
taken, sets forth how, being the frail, sinful creatures 
that we feel ourselves to be, we can yet cherish these 
glorious aspirations, and rest assured, even in the 
midst of failure, that they are not vain. In that Gos- 
pel, as the Apostle calls it, of Chnst's D^th and 
Christ's Resur rection we stand^; by_thatjw-e are saved. 
It accompanies us from the beginning of our lives to 
the end. It is the voice which welcomes the un- 
conscious infant to hi^ Saviour^s love : it is the voice 
which c ommits the unconscious dead to his Maker's 
keeping. It is the full satisfaction of one of the deep- 
est instincts of our nature. As men we m ust look 
heavenward ; but as believers in Christ that died, yea 
rather that is risen again, even now our conversa tion 
is in heaven . 

This then is the thought which I have chosen for 
our meditation this morning, the belief in Christ's 
Resurrec tion a s influencing the Christian's life. The 
subject is at all times a practical one, for if GOD 
in His great love enables us to realize in any way 
more personally what is the power of that belief, He 
will teach us also to convert the fresh knowledge into 




III.] THE RESURRECTION. 3 1 

deed; and however rich our experience may be, how- 
ever near we m ay have felt Chri st, however tenderly 
we may have been drawn to Him, we can neve r /^ p^ y-/ 
exhaust the fr esh spring of th at apostolic gospel. It 
is therefore well, as occasion offers, to go back to the 
first principles of our faith. The message of the 
Resurrection which the Apostles were charged to pro- 
claim has lost none of its significance, but we, I think, 
perplexed by the necessary growth of later thoughts, 
are often in danger of missing the grandeur of its 
simple outline. At least the unnatural barriers of sepa- 
ration which we all fix in various degrees between 
parts of our duties and our pleasures: the conven- 
tional banishment of our highest desires from ordinary 
intercourse: the unreal triviality which first veils and 
then smothers passionate longings for sympathy : the 
sense of weakness which drives us in upon ourselves : 
the sense of weariness which forces us again to frivol- 
ity ; shew that we have not yet fully learnt the lessons 
which it can teach, or the strength which it can give ; 
for the faith in the Resu rrection can harmonize life : 
can inspire life : can tr ansform life . 

I. The faith in the Resurrection of Christ can 
harm onize li fe. Whenever we pause to think what 
our lives are, they must seem for the most part to be 
a strange patc hwork. Very much appears to be done 
for us, over which we have little or no control : very 
much is determined by the necessary routine of our 
daily occupations: very much is fashioned by the 



32 THE GOSPEL OF [Serm. 

current opinions of those among whom we are thrown. 
And these great sections are brought together more 
or less by aspirations, by resolves, by acts, through 
which we witness however imperfectly to the stirrings 
of God's Spirit within u s. But if we rest here, we 
have not known the power of Christ's Resurrection. 
Though comparatively little may be left to us to 
determine by our arbitrary choice, — and I think that 
we do not commonly reflect how little it is: though 
body and mind, wearied with urgent occupations, fail 
to fulfil the desires which we sincerely entertain : 
though we indulge in honest fancies of what we 
would do if other circumstances were granted us ; still 
i n the light of the R e surrection t hose very hin- 
drances, thosej burdens^ those little gifts are seen to 
fashion and equip the several members of Christ It 
is in each case the distinct person who has received 
that imperious bias from the past, who is hemmed 
in by those peculiar cares and toils, who is entrusted 
with that one poor talent, it may be, to save whom 
Christ died. Th e whole life is o ne (we must reiterate 
the truth) j ust as the whole man is one . At any 
mo men t we represeri^in_ourselves the entire sum of 
t he past which we have gone through — of influences 
from without, and of impulses from within, of the 
deeds which we have done and of the thoughts in 
which we have indulged — and j ust s o far as these 
ad mitted at firstjthe presence of Christ, so far also 
will they be ma de to bear the image of Hi s glory : 



III.] THE RESURRECTION. 33 

so far even now do they form parts of a true har- 
mony. 

If we consider for a few moments in all reverence 
the ea rthly lif e_of the Lord we shall perhaps grasp more 
firmly the idea which 1 wish to convey. That life, 
we all know, was absolutely per fect, absolutely har- 
monious , absolutely on e, and still in its outward con- 
ditions it was not essentially different from our own. 
Christ was born poor. He was subject tojjjsjparenls- 
Step by step He increased in zvisdoni and statiLre and 
in favour with God and man. Till the appointed 
hour came for a brief ministry. He continued for 
t hirty y ears in silence and labour. His time, like our 
own was, to outward sight, o ccu pied with routine. He 
who had come to save the world was known to his 
neighbours as the carpenter. The record contains a 
virtue which we cannot misunderstand. Christ l ived 
that humble life to shew us that all life is potentially 
divine. The various forms of life do not differ in 
their inheren t c apacity for spiritual p rogress, but^jn 
the opportunjti es for its m anifestation ; and if we look 
to Christ, He will bring to one the manifold frag- 
ments out of which our lives are built, even as He 
bore to heaven after He rose from the dead the fruits 
of that long time of obscure and common toil, no less 
than of His active ministry, united in His perfect 
manhood. 

2. Thus it is that for us faith in the Resurrection 
of Christ harmonizes life. It can also inspire it. The 
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34 THE GOSPEL OF [Serm. 

Christian lives, according to the impressive words of 
Holy Scripture, /;/ Christ . It is from Christ that he 
draws his energy by vital union : it is as a member of 
Christ that he fulfils his part in the great economy of 
the world. By his faith m_GOD Incarnate and man 
ascend ed he stands forth as a witness of the esse ntial 
unity of the seen and the unseen, of earth and heaven ; 
and there never was a time when it was more neces- 
sary to proclaim this truth than it is now. There 
is about us on every side, in the midst of much that 
is simply ostentatious and false and selfish, a restless 
striving for the truth, a stern impatience of hypocrisy, 
an eager desire to do something to raise the masses of 
men to their proper di gnity . And in the meantime 
popular religion seems to stand aside from these great 
stirrings of national life. Adversaries even venture to 
urge that Christianity is, at least in certain aspects, 
hostile to truth, to sincerity, to freedom. The sphere 
of its action and its hopes is said to be transferred by 
tacit consent to a remote region, inaccessible even to 
the imagination. So true it is that at first we neglect 
o ur^ifts, and then we d eny thern . 

There i s need then that a fresh sp irit should be 
brea thed through our common life to shew not only 
that the who le ma y be truly divine, but that every 
p art in it contains som e spiritua l capacity and power. 
And if we go back to the simplest elements of our 
faith we shall see at once whence it must come, and 
what is the fallacy which lies at the root of all reason- 



III.] THE RESURRECTION'. 35 

ing which tends to d ivorce religion from an y hu m an 

interest. Our first prayer teaches us to ask not that 

we may be transferred into the kingdom of GOD, but 

that the kingdo m of GOD may come amo ng us. And 

conformably with this the whole life of the Christian 

is rightly spent in the effort to see more of GOD in 

His Wor d and in His works, and to make Him seen 

more clearly by others . We are placed, as it were, 

in the presence of a veiled glory. The practised eye 

can habitually pierce beneath the covering, and even 

we of duller vision come to feel, first perhaps in seasons 

of darkness, the reality of its effulgence. In a word J^ 

heaven is not for us so much a 'yonder' towards n£jZv~^ 

whic h we have to m o ve, as a ' here ' which we have to /^ 

realize . It lies about us, even as we live and move ^^^-'^'^-^ 

and have our being in GOD, though often we know it 

not. While we work and wait and watch, now this 

bright glimpse now that is given ; and it is due to our 

own faithlessness if every spot in which we are set 

does not become to us like^tne stony desert to the 

fugitive patriarch, a Beth-^1, a very gate of heaven. 

Doubtless it is hard to endure as seeing the invisible ^ 
but when the spiritual eye grows dim, the thought of 
Christ risen in Whom we are, will remove the mists 
which cloud them. If once we realize what these 
words ' we are in C hrist' mean , we shall know that 
beneath the surface of life lie depths which we cannot 
fathom, full alike of mystery and hope. The very 
fact that Christ lived and lives with the fulness of His 

3—2 



3^ THE GOSPEL OF [Serm. 

perfect manhood is sufficient to enable us to appreci- 
ate the possibihties of our being. Every thing_thatjs 
human catches a brightne ss from that supreme hght : 
everything that is _transient i s fou nd to be cha rged 
w ith an abiding issue by contact w ith that eternal 
Truth. 

3. The faith in the Resurrection of Christ can 
then inspire life. Once again it can trans for m it . 
We have seen that our nature, our personality, is a 
result of complicated forces and yet is indivisible. If 
we try to form a distinct conception of what we call 
vaguely our soul, we shall find that we include in the 
idea all the details of circumstance and action and 
feeling and thought, which go to make up that which 
ij . we feel to be ourselves. If we attempt to leave out any 

'/iM^4yr' . part, however small, even in the remote past, the pre- 
sent result is changed. The acts and the words of our 
childhoo d, nay, the acts^ aiidjhe words ofjour^a rents, 
bear e verjresh fruit^in uj. And as far as we can look 
forward, wherever we can represent ourselves as living 
still, under every conceivable change of circumstance 
and organization and faculty, we are forced to regard 
this manifold result as still continuing. Where it 
ceases we too c ea se : where it fail s %ve too are maimed 
ajid^irnperfect. 

This inevitable conclusion is very solemn. At 
first sight, and without Christ, it is overwhelming. 
We know each how, as li fe^goej jpn, its stream grows 
stained and turbid. Dark memories from distant years 






III.] THE RESURRECTION. 3/ 

come unbidden and mingle with its current. • We can- 
not stay the source once opened. And for the Infinite 
future, is there then no release, no rest oration, no puri - 
fying power.? Must we for ever carry with us not only 
the impress of the past, but that ever-springing fount 
of sorrow, if not of sin, which lies in the bitter recol- 
lection of good neglected ^r^yHdone ? The answer 
comes to us from the cross and from the sepulchre. 
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not 
yet appear what we shall be : bitt we know that, wheit 
He shall appear^ we shall be like Him ; for zve shall 
see Him as_He Js. The open vision of^OD in Christ 
will then transform us into His irnage. By that the 
most amazi n g miracle of Divine love and Divine powe r 
will be consummated, the complete f orgiveness of sin 
crowned by the transfiguration of the sinner ; and ini 
t he mean while to look for that, to pre pare for th at, as 
f ar as w e may do, to treasure up such glimpses of 
that ineffable glory as may be shewn to us, to carry 
with us throughout our whole work the recollection 
of the Risen Saviour, is the profession to which we 
are pledged, the mission to which we are called, the 
strength with which we are clothe d. 

To repeat then what has been said, the belief in 
the Resurrection of Christ harmonizes life, inspires 
life, transforms life. The words are lofty words, and 
if for us they are words only they bear with them the 
sad_ condemnation of a noble ideal recognized an^ 
abandoned. But, my friends, I cannot think that we 



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shall rest contented with the possibility of such an 
issue. To jnake of life one harmonious whole^ to 
realize the invis ible, to_anticipate th e transfiguring 
majesty of tjie_^jyme^ Presence, is all__that is worth 
living for. What life is, as we see its outward form 
in the vain shadow of earth, the lesson of the last two 
days may teach us. Suddenly, without time for 
special preparation or parting counsel, one^ of our 
own body passed almost at once from the fulfil- 
ment of his daily ministry to helpless unconscious- 
ness, from unconsciousness to his final rest ; but by a 
most touching coincidence the last words which he 
accompanied in this Cathedral^ express, as we trust, 
his last prayer and his last confession, and breathe 
comfort beyond any words of man : Lo ! this is our 
God, zve have zvaitcd for Him, and He will save tis : 
this is the Lord, zve have waited for Him, ive will be 
glad and rejoice in His salvation. I cannot, as a 
stranger, speak with fit judgment of his services, but 
I know that they were long, that they were faithful, 
that they were zealous ; and I know that work so 
done by the grace of GOD, follows him who has been 
enabled to do it, to bear fruit beyond all that we can 
imagine, and that the memory of it survives to be a 
silent power for good among those who shall come after. 
Death, after earthly duty loyally, humbly, patientl y 

1 Mr John Speedily, organist of Peterborough Cathedral from 1836, 
died suddenly August 7, 1S69. 

^ 'Jlie last words of the anthem at eveninji service on Auirust -i. 



III.] THE RESURRECTION. 39 

fulfilled, is not the end but the beginning of life. 
That is the Gospel of the Resurrection to which our 
thoughts have been turned this morning ; and may 
God in His great mercy grant to us all to know, as 
our hope is our brother knew, not in word but in 
power, the Gospel which we preach and ye believed, 
the Gospel of Christ's Passion and Christ's Triumph. 



Peterborough., 
Eleventh Sunday after Trinity, 1869. 



SERMON IV, 



SUFFICIENCY OF GOD. 



SERMON IV. 

SUFFICIENCY OF GOD. 

2 Cor. III. 5. 
Our sufficiency is of God, 

These words of St Paul which occur in the Epistle 
for the day carry forward the thoughts with which we 
have been occupied in part on the two last Sundays. 
We have seen the manifoldness of the materials which 
are given into the hands of the Christian to use in the 
service of GOD : we have seen the harmonizing, inspir- 
ing, transforming power of the Christian faith. But 
when we fall back from the earnest longing for a con- 
secrated life to the littlenesses and distractions and 
failures of each passing day : when we contrast the 
power of our creed, as an ideal, with the actual effect 
which it produces upon our habitual manner of acting 
and judging: — it is impossible that we should not be 
filled with a profound distrust of ourselves. We are 
tempted to declare, in the bitterness of disappoint- 



44 SUFFICIENCY OF GOD. [Serm. 

ment, that after all the vision of a life moulded into 
one whole, and animated by one Spirit, was but a 
dream ; that we cannot realize the Life and Passion 
and Resurrection of the Lord as certain truths which 
must colour the whole stream of our existence. And 
indeed so it must be, so long as we look at ourselves. 
In that contemplation of self lies weakness without 
the prospect of support; failure without the promise 
of redemption. But if it be well that we should learn 
by sad experience what we cannot do by our own 
power, still, to rest in this knowledge of despair is to 
renounce our birthright. Discomfiture and defeat are 
means by which GOD draws us closer to Himself. 
Each fresh discovery of our helplessness, if we use the 
opportunity, reveals to us at the same time a present 
source of succour. We are alone, as it may seem, 
or few, or powerless, in the midst of the world, which 
moves on its way with irresistible force : we are beset 
and baffled by circumstances which lie wholly without 
our control : we dishonour and discredit by our faint- 
heartedness the name which it is our privilege to 
bear ; yet even so, in isolation, in failure, in dejection, 
only let the thought of self perish, and we shall know 
that we are not desolate : our sufficiency is of God. 

St Paul when he used these words originally was 
speaking of the ministers of Christ, and it is in this 
relation that we must first consider them ; but we 
may also extend their application further to those 
secondary ministries of life and thought to which 



IV.] SUFFICIENCY OF GOD. 45 

every believer is devoted. The ordinances of the 
Christian society, the conduct of the Christian hfe, 
the confession of the Christian faith, all alike derive 
their sufficiency from GOD. Looked at in themselves, 
they may seem poor and unmeaning and foolish, but 
when referred to their Divine spring, and thereby 
seen in their proper majesty, they become a power of 
God and a wisdom of God. 

I. This is true in the first place of the ordinances 
of public worship, the institutions of the Christian 
society. It is perhaps very natural that we should 
regard these according to the sensible effect which 
they are calculated to produce upon our feelings, and 
thus remotely upon our actions. We can see, for ex- 
ample, that a particular exercise of devotion is likely 
to move us deeply, and forthwith we set an immode- 
rate value upon it : another may appear dull and un- 
interesting, and though it may be providentially com- 
mended to us, we unreasonably neglect it. Every- 
one's experience will furnish him with examples of 
what I describe. We disregard too frequently the 
public and social aspects of religion. We crave to fol- 
low out each step in the process by which we are in- 
dividually to be made like to GOD, and judge before- 
hand the direction in which the steps must be made. 
Perhaps even we grow restless and dissatisfied, and 
murmur that privileges are withheld from us which 
others enjoy. Doubtless it is by such stirrings as 
these that provision is made for progress in the 



4^ SUFFICIENCY OF GOD. [Serm. 

Church, but the part of reformers is reserved for 
few, and for them it is encompassed with peril. To 
the mass of us meanwhile it may be a lesson of in- 
estimable comfort that we are not left to an uncertain 
caprice in the choice of the means by which we shall 
publicly approach GOD. Let us then forget ourselves 
when we meet together, and think of Him only, and 
He will assuredly make Himself felt. The dullest 
sermon at least offers a fragment of His word. The 
loneliest service is at least rendered in His immediate 
presence. There is a danger, and I should be most 
unwilling to underrate it, of coming to regard outward 
acts of worship as inherently meritorious, but there is 
a danger to which we appear commonly to be more 
liable, of neglecting to look for any blessing from 
Divine ordinances apart from the emotion of which 
we are ourselves conscious. The whole system of 
public worship is, if I may so speak, sacramental. 
Not only does it rest on the two Sacraments as its 
essential basis, but each part is a symbol of a spiritual 
antitype and fitted to be the channel of a spiritual 
grace. We meet here not as kinsmen, not as friends, 
not as outwardly bound together by ties of depend- 
ence or duty, but simply as members of Christ whom 
He has called to work in His Body. It is then im- 
possible not to acknowledge that in this relation we 
may look for peculiar blessings when once we feel 
that each service is a function of a spiritual life. If 
in humble and faithful expectation we lay ourselves 



IV.] SUFFICIENCY OF GOD. 47 

open to the Divine influence, as we do to the air 
and the sunshine, not attempting to define too curi- 
ously how it quickens us : if we who teach sink our- 
selves utterly in the message with which we are 
charged and the ministry which we have to fulfil : if 
you who hear look beyond the voice and the instru- 
ment to Him whose love is so brought near to you : if 
all come together in this place prepared to receive and 
not to create, to offer themselves and to find life and 
access of life : then we shall understand by fellowship 
with the Author of all strength what it is to confess 
and to know that our sufficiency is of God. 

2. The ordinances of public worship in this way 
force us to think on our common spiritual life. Un- 
less they are regarded in this light they have no dis- 
tinguishing mark. The special blessings which they 
bring, as we feel upon the least reflection, come from 
God and must be sought from GOD ; and faith is 
soon content to wait upon His will. But in the active 
ministry of life it is more difficult to learn the same 
lesson. Here where we seetn to trace the course and 
the issues of actions more plainly, we are apt to con- 
tinue more hasty and impatient and discontented. 
It is very hard to realize the vitality of effort. It is 
very hard to labour as believing that he who plants 
can rarely see the rich fruitage of the tree. It is very 
hard to refrain from measuring ourselves by ourselves 
and claiming our reward before men. We complain 
— whose conscience does not accuse him — that we 



48 SUFFICIENCY OF GOD. [Serm. 

have toiled in vain. We say bitterly that we may 
fold our hands and rest, for no deliverance is wrought 
by us. We forget the harvest reaped from others' 
labours while we murmur that the seed which we have 
cast upon the ground remains long hidden. And all 
this is because we do not firmly grasp the truth that 
in all we do our sufficiency is of God. What we have 
is from Him : what we do is for Him. As soon as 
we really feel this we shall not be strong only, but 
strong in quietness. We shall be afraid to anticipate 
the results of devoted service, but rather commit them 
to His keeping in whose hand are zve and our works. 

To many the saying whatsoever is not of faith is 
sin has seemed exaggerated, the command pray with- 
out ceasing impossible ; and yet both, I believe, must 
be applied literally to life. Every part of life cannot 
but have a connexion with that unseen world by which 
we are surrounded. To realize this connexion is 
faith ; to seek fellowship with its King through Christ 
is prayer. And just so far as we limit our purposes 
and desires by the visible and the temporal, we miss 
our true aim, we sin. Just so far as we claim no 
heavenly guidance and support, the clearest sight of 
the beauty of the eternal order is simply a vision of 
condemnation. And if this be so, or rather since this 
is so : while that heavenly light can stream over the 
occupations of our daily business: while that heavenly 
communion can be made vital by lifting the soul 
upward in the momentary acknowledgment of God's 



IV.] SUFFICIENCY OF GOD. 49 

Presence ; shall we not be satisfied to do calmly and 
for eternity that which we find prepared for us, know- 
ing that all so done must work its proper work, un- 
flattered by success and undisturbed by failure, be- 
cause our sufficiency is of God f 

3. Such a view of life, infinitely noble as it is, 
naturally comes, as we have already seen, from a 
belief in the first elements of the Christian Creed. 
But who has not trembled often at the contrast be- 
tween the words of our profession and the type of 
life with which we are satisfied ? It seems as if it 
were impossible to embrace in simple sincerity the 
true import of the awful facts to which our Christian 
name bears witness. The more our conceptions of 
the universe are widened the harder it seems to be to 
reahze that the Maker of all took our nature upon 
Him and died for us and bore our transfigured nature 
to heaven. Faith becomes more difficult in propor- 
tion as our need of it becomes greater. Yet even 
here the text speaks comfort. It raises us above our- 
selves : it points to the beginnings of faith in the love 
of God : it recognizes the cooperation of our will, but 
traces all our strength to a Divine source. No man, 
it is written elsewhere, can say that Jesns is the Lord 
but by the Holy Ghost. To be ready then to declare 
that we do believe that Christ died and rose again for 
us : to welcome the new bond which the gospel esta- 
blishes among all men : to wait even with dim eye and 
dull ear for the coming of the kingdom of heaven : 
W. S. 4 



50 SUFFICIENCY OF GOD. [Serm. IV. 

is for us a sign that the Spirit is active within us. 
We may still feel difficulties which no intellectual 
effort can wholly remove : we may still find natural 
impulses urging us to selfish indulgence : we may still 
be cumbered with much serving when Christ is wait- 
ing to speak to us ; but it is enough if we have learnt 
our weakness : it is enough if we can lift the cry which 
was once powerful against the might of evil : Lord, 
I believe ; help Thou mine unbelief: it is enough if 
we look beyond ourselves for the confirmation of our 
faith, and know that our sufficiency is of God. 

To sum up all then very briefly, the losing of self 
in the supreme thought of GOD is the secret of our 
power as Christians. In this spirit it is that we are 
taught to frequent the services which Christ has 
ordained, waiting devoutly for the blessing which 
He is ready to give. 

In this spirit it is that we are taught to offer to 
Him our lives, in the sure trust that He will con- 
secrate them to the eventual ministry of His Church. 

In this spirit it is that we are taught to come 
before Him with our faltering confession, knowing 
that in due time He will confirm it by the witness 
of personal experience. 

So may we be enabled in devotion, in action, in 
belief, to know ever more certainly that our suffici- 
ency is of God. 

Peterborough^ 
Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, 1869. 



SERMON V. 

ACTION THE TEST OF FAITH, 



4—2 



SERMON V. 

action the test of faith. 

St Luke x. 37. 
Go, and do thou likewise. 

There is no one among us who is not familiar with 
the story of the good Samaritan which we have heard 
again this morning as the Gospel of the day. There 
is no one in whose heart its deep lesson of love does 
not find a clear response. But in this as in all other 
narratives of Holy Scripture there is a freshness which 
no acquaintance deadens : a fulness of meaning which 
no single experience exhausts. As we change our- 
selves, the details appear in new combinations : as we 
view them in altered lights, they become radiant with 
unexpected brightness. 

Thus the circumstances with which the parable is 
connected by St Luke bring it into a significant rela- 
tion with the topics which have been presented to 
us on the last three Sundays. If at that time the 



54 ACTION THE TEST OF FAITH. [Serm. 

Lord could thank His Father that the mysteries of 
redemption were revealed to babes, the thanksgiving 
apphes to us who have learnt that spiritual service 
lies in the consecration of simplest duties. If at that 
time He could pronounce His disciples blessed, be- 
cause their eyes saw and their ears heard v/hat was 
not made known to prophets and kings, the blessing 
belongs still more to us for whom each day makes 
clearer the manifold glories of the Gospel of the 
Resurrection. If at that time the student of the Law, 
Avho had rightly penetrated to its meaning and sought 
by deeds to inherit life, required to be placed face to 
face with an ideal This do and thou sJialt live, felt 
to be alike true and unattainable, the lesson is no less 
for us who hardly learn by disappointment and dis- 
aster that ottr siifficiency is of God. 

Moreover the parable itself has a close application 
to ourselves. If as yet we have advanced no further 
we may hope that we have all at least reached the 
position which the lawyer had gained. Like him 
we have an adequate theoretic knowledge of the 
faith in which we have been born. Like him we 
are, I assume, honestly desirous to turn our theory 
into practice, even if we are tempted to attach an 
inordinate value to our works. Like him, I do not 
doubt, we are often ready to justify ourselves when 
we are confronted by claims which we are unwill- 
ing to satisfy. For us then, no less than for him, the 
story of the Good Samaritan has its peculiar lessons. 



v.] ACTION THE TEST OF FAITH. 55 

It tells us that we are to carry our intellectual know- 
ledge of religion into the actual conduct of life : it 
tells us that humanity is the only limit which GoD 
has placed to the ministries of love : it tells us that 
opportunity is the test of character : it tells us, not 
indeed with stern irony to earn life by a perfect obedi- 
ence, but to manifest the life which Christ has given 
us in the faithful endeavour to fulfil the noblest in- 
stincts of our nature. May GOD grant that we may 
listen to the lessons, and as He gives us strength, obey 
them, 

I. A pure Greed Is indeed an inestimable bless- 
ing. No greater privilege is given to men than to be 
able to advance in the knowledge of Divine things, 
to learn by slow and patient thought how truth is set 
against truth, and all the various lines of revelation 
in the words and works of GOD converge to one great 
unity. He who has carefully reflected on what he 
professes to believe, and pierced to the spirit of his 
faith, like the lawyer in the parable, has gained a 
vantage-ground for action. But knowledge is only a 
vantage-ground and not a victory. If we neglect to 
turn to use the superiority which it gives us, our 
defeat will only be the more disgraceful because we 
were so richly furnished for the battle. Religious 
truth cannot be of the intellect only. It must, if it 
be held vitally, shew itself in life. 

What then is the practical power of our peculiar 
faith } How is our conduct directly influenced by 



56 ACTION THE TEST OF FAITH. [Serm. 

what we hold as Christians, or as members of the 
Enghsh Church ? How do the special articles of our 
belief move us to exertion when we are tempted to 
indolence ? how do they discipline us to self-restraint 
when we are tempted to pleasure ? how do they 
ennoble with a Divine dignity the trivial details of 
our daily business ? how do they gather into one 
supreme sacrifice the manifold services in which we 
are engaged ? They can do this, and if they do not 
according to the measure of our infirmity, I fear that 
we cannot be said, in any true sense, to believe at all. 
If we take the simplest examples my meaning 
will be most evident. Can any one, for instance, sin- 
cerely believe that GOD the Father made the world, 
and not regard all creation, even in what we call its 
lowest forms, with a devout reverence ? Here too 
there are marvels of love and wisdom, partly veiled 
and partly open, before w^hich we must check all 
wantonness and wilful caprice. Can any one sincerely 
believe that GOD the Son redeemed all mankind, 
and not feel his soul stirred within him towards those 
who as yet have known no tidings of the Gospel t 
Here too there are around us in the ignorant and the 
outcast those for whom Christ died, to whom we are 
privileged to commend our faith by the tender offices 
of charity. Can any one sincerely believe that GOD 
the Holy Ghost sanctifieth all the elect people of 
God, and be content to drag on a life of poor frivolity 
without claiming for it the glory of transfigurement t 



v.] ACTION THE TEST OF FAITH. 57 

Here too there are occasions and faculties and im- 
pulses which the Spirit is waiting to convert into 
springs of blessing. 

Such questions, which rise out of the first elements 
of our Creed, must help us to feel what a gap lies 
between our confession in words and our confession in 
acts. And if we pass on to the characteristics of our 
own branch of the Church, how few among us look 
upon these as fresh motives, fresh instruments for 
labour, which are given not to minister to our pride 
but to fit us for our appointed task ! Yet is it no- 
thing that a temple like this in which we are gathered 
reminds us of the splendoisTs of our inheritance } Is 
it nothing that we claim to represent the national 
Christianity of England by direct succession from the 
earliest times } Is it nothing that our Catholic Church 
has never been permanently compressed within any 
partial mould of truth, but has been able at all times 
to bring forth from its treasures tilings new and old, 
to satisfy the wants of all who come to it for support 
and guidance 1 Nay rather in all these things there 
are unexhausted sources of strength. But we, in our 
faithlessness, divorce theory from life, and forget that 
each advantage becomes for us a more effective mo- 
tive for energy, and that the superior purity and 
completeness of our faith must, if it be real, manifest 
itself in increased power of action. 

2. At this point, however, I can imagine that we, 
like the lawyer, may inquire in genuine perplexity. 



$8 ACTION THE TEST OF FAITH. [Serm. 

where we are to find scope for this practical energy 
of faith. To him the answer was given in an inverted 
form. He asked who was his neighbour. He was 
told to consider who acted as a neighbour. And in 
this inversion lies a deep truth. It is one of the ne- 
cessities of our imperfect lives that we fence ourselves 
round with prejudices and tastes and party sympa- 
thies. We are unconsciously narrowed in our real 
apprehension of the fellowship of men. We require 
to be pointed to deeds of heroism and devotion in 
those from whom we are most widely separated in 
order that we may actually feel the bond of the com- 
mon nature which underlies every difference of class 
and creed. When we doubt to whom we must shew 
love in the strength of our Christian faith our eyes 
are directed, it may be, to one who denies it, who yet 
by his works shews that he is moved by the love of 
purity and the love of truth, which zve draw from an 
unfailing source. 

The thought is one on which it is well to dwell 
in times like our own, when sharp intellectual differ- 
ences are found on all sides combined with common 
zeal for the removal of definite evils. Our faith, let 
us remember, is not opposed to the truest instincts 
of humanity, but rather makes their fulfilment possible. 
If, as I believe, what is called Natural Theology has 
no substantial basis, man is naturally religious, and 
the Gospel furnishes him with motives sufficiently 
powerful to overcome the temptations of selfishness, 



v.] ACTION THE TEST OF FAITH. 59 

and hopes sufficiently strong to support him through 
the long delays which separate the seed-time and the 
harvest. The Christian differs from the patriot and 
the philanthropist not so much in the immediate ends 
which he seeks as In the impulses by which he is 
moved to seek them. If his aims are always wider 
and more far-reaching, they are forced upon him 
by convictions Infinitely more persuasive. A spiritual 
Samaritan, a stranger that Is, or even an enemy to 
our faith, may first open to us our duties, but then 
we shall confess with shame that we were already 
pledged to the fulfilment of those offices of charity 
by the neglect of which we have brought discredit on 
our name. 

3. And this reflection brings me to the last point 
in the parable which I wish to notice. No exam- 
ple can shew more clearly that opportunity Is the 
test of character. We may be sure that countless 
little acts of cowardice and self-seeking had hardened 
the priest and the Levlte against the final claim made 
upon their devotion. We may be sure that countless 
tender services of unquestioning love had prepared the 
Samaritan to Imperil himself In the hope of saving an 
alien. They had not contemplated desertion so dis- 
graceful : //^ had not set before himself devotion so 
complete. But when the crisis came It revealed the 
accumulated results of a long, slow growth In selfish- 
ness and sacrifice : it revealed the intrinsic hollowness 
of a life hitherto holy In the sight of men : it revealed 



6o ACTION THE TEST OF FAITH, [Serm. 

the fatal difference between a true faith dissociated 
from faithful action, and instinctive piety loyally- 
obeyed. 

And as it was of old time, so it is now. It must in 
the end be disastrous to cherish a creed which finds 
no expression of its characteristics in our lives. The 
Christian will pause from time to time to satisfy him- 
self that he does, by God's grace, work in the spirit 
and by the help of his faith. It is always easy to 
find excuses for good undone and evil done ; but each 
excuse accepted removes our faith farther away from 
the sphere of life and weakens the motives by which 
it prompts us to action. Those who left the wounded 
man to perish could doubtless have awakened compas- 
sion in others by describing the extremity of their 
own peril. The dying traveller would have become 
simply an incident in their story. Such a version of 
the occurrence would, we must confess, have seemed 
plausible. It is only by the contrast that we feel the 
baseness with which ministers of GOD betrayed their 
trust. It is only by the appeal to instinct that we 
can fitly condemn their degeneracy from their creed. 
And when we apply the test to ourselves, when v/e 
compare what our faith enables us to accomplish and 
wdiat our humanity claims from us, w^ith what we 
actually effect, we shall be ready to take the condem- 
nation to ourselves. Some men who have been and 
are most active in reforming our criminals, in elevat- 
ing our poor, in purifying the methods of government, 



v.] ACTION THE TEST OF FAITH. 6\ 

in ennobling the aims of national policy, are without 
the all-constraining belief in the Gospel which we 
hold. We ought to be stronger and more active than 
they. If we are not our Christianity must be passing 
into a form. Thus we shall find in every record of 
self-sacrifice an imperious call to us as Christians to 
test the reality of our belief In every golden deed 
by which GOD reveals the possible nobility of man 
we shall hear His clear command : Go and do thou 
likewise. Go and do thou likewise: faith in Christ fur- 
nishes thee with a motive of irresistible force : faith 
in Christ furnishes thee with an instrument of in- 
exhaustible strength. 



Peterborough, 
Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity, 1869. 



SERMON VI. 

PROGRESS FROM THE CONFESSION OF GOD. 



SERMON VI. 

PROGRESS FROM THE CONFESSION OF GOD. 

St Luke xvii. 15. 

One of them when he saw that he was healed tnrned 
back, and with a loud voice glorified God, 

We were led last Sunday Morning to consider the 
right interpretation which the heart of man gives to 
the Divine truth of our common brotherhood ; to 
see In the action of a Samaritan a luminous commen- 
tary on the Law of which he was held to be the 
enemy ; and so to ask ourselves very humbly what 
practical use we make of the special treasures of 
faith and discipline which are committed to our 
keeping, not for theory but for life. In the person of 
an alien the Lord then set before us the type of our 
duty to man. To-day he sets before us again in the 
person of an alien the type of our duty to GOD. The 
coincidence is not to be overlooked. It is as if He 
would teach us among other things this great lesson, 
W. S. 5 



66 PROGRESS FROM THE [Serm. 

that instinct ratifies the Gospel, and forces us to re- 
cognize in the deeds of strangers to our covenant the 
principles which ought to be the necessary spring of 
all we do or think. It is as if he would teach us that 
the human soul, when it is true to itself, strives up- 
wards, and that our Christian faith makes the fulfil- 
ment of its aspirations not only possible but natural. 
And though the miracle of the ten lepers is less fami- 
liar to us and less pathetic than that parable of the 
Good Samaritan, the details of the history add singu- 
lar force to its central teaching. 

A common misery, we read, had brought together 
men who otherwise had no dealings with one another. 
As lepers the Jew and the Samaritan v/ere equal. 
In distant isolation they confessed their common un- 
cleanness afar off. They lifted up one voice of 
prayer. They received one testing command. All 
alike proved faithful under this trial, and all alike 
were cleansed. Then appeared the difference which 
lay deep in their inmost souls, deeper even than the 
springs of faith. One — one only of the ten — when 
he saw that he was healed turned back, and zvith a lond 
voice glorified God and fell down at [Jesus'] feet, 
giving Him thaiiks ; and he was a Samaritan. In 
that generous devotion, which formalists would call 
disobedience, we seem to see the spontaneous nobility 
of his true manhood. He could not fulfil the letter 
of the injunction which had been imposed upon him 
till he had satisfied its spirit. He could not claim 



VI.] CONFESSION OF GOD. C7 

from the priest the witness of purity till he had openly 
acknowledged the magnitude of the blessing which he 
had received. He could not make the prescribed 
offering in the Temple of GOD, till he had rendered 
grateful worship to Him in whom he had found the 
Presence of GOD. An imperious voice within him 
called him to an immediate service. To that all other 
claims must yield. The delay indeed was but for a 
moment. From the lips of Christ he heard at once 
that his heart had interpreted rightly the will of his 
Saviour ; and then he was charged in new strength to 
complete the interrupted duty: Arise, go thy zvay: 
thy faith hath saved thee. 

What then, we may ask, did he gain more than 
his fellows t They too were made whole even as he. 
He too was commanded to leave Christ even as they. 
The answer is near at hand. They found the bless- 
ing, but he found the spring of blessing. They ex- 
perienced the action of life, but he reached to the 
soul of life. They remained what they were, devout 
Jews, it may have been ; but he welcomed in his soul 
the revelation of the power of faith. He had seen 
God : he had given glory to GOD : he had moved 
others to look for God by the confession of his own 
experience : for him all things were become new. 

And for us, my brethren, the essential circum- 
stances of the narrative are realized every day. GoD 
is ever cleansing, strengthening, blessing us through 
Christ, like those ten lepers. And for our part we 

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68 PROGRESS FROM THE [Serm. 

are not slow to render to Him the prescribed service 
of decent devotion ; but how few there are among us 
who pause to recognize His personal love and pre- 
sence in the act of mercy to themselves : to tell 
courageously what things He has done for their souls : 
to stir others by opening the sources of their own joy. 
And so it is that our Christian life seems to be so 
poor, so fragmentary, so undiffusive, that many ques- 
tion whether it has any longer more than a traditional 
existence, while it is unable to interpret, and combine, 
and fertilize, the materials of thought and action with 
which we are called upon to deal. If however we can 
pierce to the spirit of to-day's Gospel : if we can make 
our own that which the one Samaritan gained over 
and above his restoration by his public adoration of 
the Lord, then I believe that all will be changed. 
Life will become not a prayer only but a psalm of 
thanksgiving, uniting at every point the visible and 
the invisible in hope and in accomplishment. But 
to this end, like him, we must see GOD : we must 
give glory to GOD : we must confess GOD openly 
before men. 

I. We must see GOD. It is true that in GOD we 
live and move and have our being, and still very 
commonly we do 7iot see Him. There is a won- 
derful saying of one of the greatest of the Greek 
philosophers, which will help to explain my meaning. 
Strangers had come from a distance to render him 
their homage and profit by his wisdom. On their 



VI.] CONFESSION OF GOD. 69 

arrival they found him engaged in the humblest of 
domestic labours. Ashamed to surprise him in what 
seemed to them a menial service, unworthy of a great 
master, they would have withdrawn unnoticed ; but 
he recalled them by a word which laid open the 
divine mystery of life. * Enter,' he said, ' for there 
'are gods also here.' Yes, my friends, there are gods 
also here : that is the thought which explains and 
ennobles our trials. A little more keenness of sight, 
a little more quickness of ear, and we might become 
conscious of the divine powers by which we are en- 
circled. For us doubtless the point of that saying of 
Heraclitus is concentrated in a way which he could 
not have imagined by the coming of the Lord Jesus 
Christ ; but still even in its old shape it may be of 
use to us. It is an incalculable blessing to be able 
to pause at any moment and say 'GoD is also here': 
it is an incalculable blessing to pause and say it. All 
our habits of thinking and planning tend to remove 
the idea of GOD far away from us. We become 
familiar with so many modes of applying and trans- 
forming force and life, that we are in danger of for- 
getting that we do not create them. Yet it matters 
not how many links in the great chain of sequence 
we may be able to distinguish and follow : they do 
not help us to dispense with a beginning. And Faith 
knows that that beginning is GOD, even our Father. 

The effort thus to see GOD about us is,. I say, of 
the highest practical moment. There is no one here 



;o PROGRESS FROM THE [Serm. 

perhaps who has not known the value of the thought 
Thotc God seest me, but this 'seeing God' of which 
I speak is something more. That is a safeguard but 
tJiis is strength : that keeps us from doing but this 
arms us to do : that suggests the presence of a Judge 
but tJds the presence of a Redeemer. And in the 
common details of life it is tJiis, the conviction of the 
nearness of GOD to help us, which we want above all 
things. We pray languidly, expecting little : we take 
the gifts and the trials which come to us for the most 
part as a matter of course: we are like- 'the nine' 
who made their petition and received their answer, 
without actually knowing that the petition was ad- 
dressed to a present GOD, and that the answer came 
directly from Him. But when the better way is 
opened let us boldly enter upon it, and claim, like 
the Samaritan, to see the personal love of GoD in the 
action of His Providence. 

2. If we see GOD we shall then, in the next 
place, be ready to give Him glory. It does indeed 
appear to be an amazing thing that man can give 
glory to God, so that it be acceptable to Him. The 
fact points to some deep harmony of creation which 
we are as yet wholly unable to comprehend. Here 
all human analogies fail us ; and still we know that 
we can magnify the honour of GOD, not as though 
He needed anything, but as if He rejoiced in the free 
devotion of His creatures. For ourselves however we 
can see more clearly wliat privileges are included in 



VL] CONFESSION OF GOD. 7 1 

this power of giving glory to GOD. It assures us that 
we have fellowship with Him ; and that our true work 
is His. There must be some likeness of nature, or 
the tribute would be impossible. There must be 
some community of purpose, or we should not rejoice 
instinctively in the thought of the Divine omnipo- 
tence. And as we exercise the powers which enable 
us thus to realize a Divine communion they become 
insensibly more pervading and more energetic. Who- 
ever has cultivated the habit of looking to GOD and 
praising Him will have found growing up within him- 
self the vital consciousness of a present Saviour by 
Whose strength and for Whom he is working. He will 
have learnt not to be impatient of results, for he knows 
that we see but little of that which can be seen even 
on earth, and that the end is not here. He will have 
ceased to trouble himself as to what GOD gives him 
to do, for he feels that the work of GOD is one, and 
that all faithful labour contributes to its fulfilment. 
He will have rested in the assurance that what he is 
allowed to do is of moment only as one test of what he 
is enabled to be, for he sees that the influences of life 
propagate themselves in countless incalculable ways. 
He will have penetrated to the secret of unfailing- 
strength ; for in reply to each fresh acknowledgment 
of Divine mercy he will find borne in upon his soul, 
as the revelation of the law of life, thy faith hath 
saved thee. 

3. In the mean time he will have recognized 



72 PROGRESS FROM THE [Serm. 

also that his sense of God's goodness has imposed 
upon him duties towards his fellow-men. The Sama- 
ritan when he saw that he was heale.i, turned back and 
with a loud voice glorified God. It was not enough 
then that his gratitude should be real ; it was to be 
open too. And this brings us to the last point which 
I wished to notice. In that open confession which 
Christ blessed lies a lesson which we need greatly. 
There is, I think, nothing sadder in the world than 
the waste of Christian influence. From one cause or 
another we shrink from the responsibility of avowing 
our deepest convictions. Partly it is from the fear of 
ostentation and singularity, partly from self-distrust 
and sincere humility, partly from more unworthy 
motives. But from whatever cause it may be, by so 
doing, we wrong our friends. We leave unspoken the 
word which might have cheered or guided or turned 
them. By our coldness we suffer them to remain in 
doubt whether GOD has visited us. If the heart be 
full, men argue, its feelings will find utterance. If the 
Christian creed be accepted as the Truth, it cannot but 
colour the whole life of the believer. Not to speak then 
of our highest hopes, not to talk, one with another, 
of what, as we trust, GOD has done and will do for 
us, is to cast discredit on our name. When that is at 
stake we may well forget ourselves. It was strange 
and presumptuous, no doubt, in the one Samaritan 
to turn back alone. The ignominy of his descent ex- 
posed his boldness to yet severer criticism. But none 



VL] CONFESSION OF GOD. 73 

the less his boldness was welcomed with a blessing. 
He was strengthened himself by his confession, and 
he strengthened others. And so will it be with us. 
No one, I fancy, has ever ventured to cast aside his 
religious reserve without meeting with sympathy for 
which he had not looked, and gaining courage from 
the sense of spiritual fellowship. How can it be 
otherwise } It is not of ourselves we speak but 
of God whom we have seen. It is not our own 
honour which we look for, but the glory of our 
Father which is in heaven. It is not of any spe- 
cial prerogative we make boast, but of a blessing 
which is offered as the common heritage of men ; 
for Christ is the propitiation for our sins : and not 
for ours only but for the sifts of the whole world. 
So may we all see Him as our Redeemer and our 
Strength : so may we give Him glory : so may we 
confess Him before men ! 



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BIRKS {Vxoi.)~continued. 

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Mr. Brooks' reputation as a preacher stands very high among his ozvn 

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attention here. It may be hoped, therefore, that this new volume will be 

welcome to English readei's. The first sermon, which gives its title to the 

7iolume, was delivered in Westminster Abbey, and was gj'eatly admired by 

Dean Stanley who was a personal friend of the preacher. 

Brunton.— THE BIBLE AND SCIENCE. By T. Lauder 
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The objects of the present work are to give a brief and popular sketch of 
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the Biblical account of the Creation than those geological doctrines regard- 
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present day. After this follows a discussion of the question^ how these 
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the University of Dublin : 

SERMONS, DOCTRINAL AND PRACTICAL. Edited, 
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A SECOND SERIES OF SERMONS. Edited by J. A. 
Jeremie, D.D., Dean of Lincoln. Seventh Edition. 8vo. Js, 

LETTERS ON ROMANISM, in reply to Dr. Newman's 

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* Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine.' '^ A work which 

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Calderwood.-^ — Works by Henry Calderwood, LL.D., 
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CALDERWOOD ij^x.)— continued. 

THE PARABLES OF OUR LORD, interpreted in view 

of their relations to each other. Crown 8vo. 6j'. 
*' They are written in a simple intelligible manner^ and may be read 
with satisfaction^ — Westminster Review. 

THE RELATIONS OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION. 

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THE NATURE OF THE ATONEMENT AND ITS 
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^■^ Among the first theological treatises of this generation^ — Guardian. 
** One of the most remarkable theological books ever written.'''' — Times. 

CHRIST THE BREAD OF LIFE. An Attempt to give 
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Romanism. Second Edition, greatly enlarged. Crown 8vo. 4^". ^d, 

^^ Deserves the most attentive study by all who interest themselves in the 
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Literary Churchman. 

THOUGHTS ON REVELATION, with Special Reference 
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RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE GIFT OF ETERNAL 
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Canterbury. — Works by Archibald Campbell, Archbishop 

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Councils for its Work ; its Cathedrals. Constituting the Charge 
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Christians, more especially lay^nen, those reasons which have from time to 
time, appeared to himself to afford a reasonably strong presumption that 
Nattcre and Revelation have proceeded from the same Author, and that^ 
therefore, the materials of a credible and rational religion are placed at the 
disposal of mankind. 

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ON SOME INFLUENCES OF CHRISTIANITY UPON 
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ST. ANSELM. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. 
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Curteis.— DISSENT in its RELATION to the CHURCH 

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of Oxford, in the year 1 87 1, on the foundation of the late Rev. 

John Bampton, M, A, , Canon of Salisbury. By George Herbert 

Curteis, M,A,, late Fellow and Sub-Rector of Exeter College; 

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Lichfield Cathedral ; Rector of Turweston, Bucks. New Edition. 

Crown 8vo. 7^, bd. 

^^Mr. Curteis has done good service by maintaining in an eloquent^ 

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proxi?nate union^ — Saturday Review. "^ well-timed^ learned^ and 

thoughtful book. " 

Davies. — Works by the Rev, J. Llewelyn Davies, M.A., 
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THE GOSPEL AND MODERN LIFE; with a Preface 
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DAVIES (Rev. J. \A.)— continued. 

added, Morality according to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper; 
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WARNINGS AGAINST SUPERSTITION. In Four 
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*'We have seldom read a wiser little book. The Sej'mons are shorty 
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THE CHRISTIAN CALLING. Sermons. Extra fcap. 
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Donaldson.— THE APOSTOLICAL FATHERS: a Critical 
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James Donaldson, LL.D. Crown 8vo. 7^. dd. 

Eadie. — Works by John Eadie, D.D., LL.D., Professor of 
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THE ENGLISH BIBLE. An External and Critical History 

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the Need of Revising the English New Testament. Two vols, 

8vo. 2%S. 

^^ Accurate, scholarly, full of completest sympathy ivith the translators 

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ST. PAUL'S EPISTLES TO THE THESSALONIANS. 
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Churchman, ^^ If we have not misunderstood him, we have before us a 
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Ecclesiastes. A Treatise on the Authorship of 

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Faber.— SERMONS AT A NEW SCHOOL. By the Rev. 
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Farrar. — Works by the Rev. F. W. Farrar, D.D., F.R.S., 

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THE FALL OF MAN, AND OTHER SERMONS. 

Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. 
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THE WITNESS OF HISTORY TO CHRIST. Being 
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The following are the subjects of the Five Lectures : — /. " The Ante- 
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SEEKERS AFTER GOD. The Lives of Seneca, Epictetus, 

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*'^ very interesting and valuable book." — Saturday Review. 

THE SILENCE AND VOICES OF GOD : University 
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" IN THE DAYS OF THY YOUTH." Sermons on Prac- 
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FARRAR (Rev. F. ^N .)— continued. 

ness of moral teaching, which is what every kind of sermon wants, and 

especially a sermon to boys.''"' — Literary Churchman. 

ETERNAL HOPE. Five Sermons preached in Westminster 
Abbey, in 1876. With Preface, Notes, etc. Contents : What 
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Are there few that be saved ? — Earthly and Future Consequences 
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SAINTLY WORKERS. Lenten Lectures delivered in St. 
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MERCY AND JUDGMENT. A Few Last Words on Chris- 
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This vohime contains a further development of the doctrines propounded 
in Canon Farrar"" s former work on ''Eternal Hope,'' dealing in full with 
the objections that have been raised to the validity of those doctrines. Jt is, 
therefore, an indispensable companion to the previous volume. 

Fellowship : Letters Addressed to my Sister 
Mourners. Fcap. 8vo, cloth gilt. 3^-. (id. 

Ferrar.— A COLLECTION OF FOUR IMPORTANT 

MSS. OF THE GOSPELS, viz., 13, 69, 124, 346, with a view 
to prove their common origin, and to restore the Text of their 
Archetype. By the late W. H. Ferrar, M.A., Professor of Latin 
in the University of Dublin. Edited by T. K. Abbott, M.A., 
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Forbes. — Works by Granville H. Forbes, Rector of 
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THE VOICE OF GOD IN THE PSALMS. Cr. Bvo. 6s.6d. 

VILLAGE SERMONS. By a Northamptonshire Rector. 
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accuse this volume of inadequacy of doctrine because it says no more 
than Scripture about vicarious suffering and extei'nal retributio7i. For 
ourselves zoe welco??ie it most cordially as expressing adequately ivhat we 
believe to be the true burden of the Gospel in a manner which may take 
hold either of the least or the most cultivated intellect. " — Spectator. 

Gaskoin.— CHILDREN'S TREASURY OF BIBLE 

STORIES. By Mrs. Herman Gaskoin. Edited, with Preface, 

by the Rev. G. F. Maclear, D.D. 

Part L— Old Testament. i8mo. \s. 

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Part III. — The Apostles. i8mo. \s. 
*' This very careful and well-written 7uork is as good an introduction to 
Biblical History as we remember to have come across.''^ — Educational 
Times. 

Hardwick. — Works by the Ven. Archdeacon Hardwick : 
CHRIST AND OTHER MASTERS. A Historical Inquiry 
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A HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Middle 

Age. From Gregory the Great to the Excommunication of Luther. 

Edited by William Stubbs, M.A., Regius Professor of Modern 

History in the University of Oxford. With Four Maps constructed 

for this work by A. Keith Johnston. New Edition. Crown 

Svo. los. 6d. 

*'As a Manual for the student of ecclesiastical history in the Middle 

Ages, tve know no English work which can be compared to Mr. Hardwick' s 

book. " — Guardian. 

A HISTORY of the CHRISTIAN CHURCH DURING 
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Hare. — Works by the late ARCHDEACON HARE : 

THE VICTORY OF FAITH. By Julius Charles 
Hare, M. A., Archdeacon of Lewes. Edited by Prof. Plumptre. 
With Introductory Notices by the late Prof. Maurice and Dean 
Stanley. Third Edition. Crown Svo. 6s. 6d. 

THE MISSION OF THE COMFORTER. With Notes. 
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Harper.— THE METAPHYSICS OF THE SCHOOL. By 
Thomas Harper, S.J. In 5 vols. Vols. I. and II., 8vo. i8j. each. 
''^ If the Clergy of either communion in this country could be brought 
to study Father Harper'' s book, we should augur well for a sounder the- 
ology even in the next generation. " — Church Quarterly Review. 

Harris. — SERMONS. By the late George Collyer 

Harris, Prebendary of Exeter, and Vicar of St. Luke's, Torquay. 
With Memoir by Charlotte M. Yonge, and Portrait. Extra 
fcap. 8vo. 6^. 

Hervey.— THE GENEALOGIES OF OUR LORD AND 
SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, as contained in the Gospels of 
St. Matthew and St. Luke, reconciled with each other, and shown 
to be in harmony with the true Chronology of the Times. By Lord 
Arthur Hervey, Bishop of Bath and Wells. Svo. loj. dd. 

Hort.— TWO DISSERTATIONS. I. On monofenhs 0EO2 

in Scripture and Tradition. II. On the " Constantinopolitan" 
Creed and other Eastern Creeds of the Fourth Century. By F. J. A. 
Hort, D.D., Fellow and Divinity Lecturer of Emmanuel Col- 
lege, Cambridge. Svo. 7^. (>d. 

Hows on (Dean) — Works by : 

BEFORE THE TABLE. An Inquiry, Historical and Theo- 
logical, into the True Meaning of the Consecration Rubric in the 
Communion Service of the Church of England. By the Very Rev. 
J. S. HowsoN, D.D., Dean of Chester. With an Appendix and 
Supplement containing Papers by the Right Rev. the Bishop of 
St. Andrew's and the Rev. R. W. Kennion, .A. Svo. yj. dd. 

THE POSITION OF THE PRIEST DURING CON- 
SECRATION IN THE English Communion Service. A 
Supplement and a Reply. Crown Svo. 2s. 6d. 

Hughes.— THE MANLINESS of CHRIST. By Thomas 
Hughes, Author of 'Tom Brown's School Days.' Cr. Svo. 4^-. 6^. 
^^He has given to the world a volume, which so truly, and in some places so 
picturesquely and strikingly, represents the life of our Lord, that we can 
only express the hope that it may find its way into the hands of thousands 
of English working men. " — Spectator. 

Hutton.— ESSAYS : THEOLOGICAL and LITERARY. 
By Richard Hutton, .A. New and cheaper issue. 2 vols. 
Svo. iS^. 

Hymni Ecclesiae. — Fcap. 8vo. ^s. 6d. 

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14 THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 

Hyacinthe.— CATHOLIC REFORM. By Father 

Hyacinthe, Letters, Fragments, Discourses. Translated by 

Madame Hyacinth e-Loy son. With a Preface by the Very Rev. 

A. P. Stanley, D.D., Dean of Westminster. Cr. 8vo, "]$. 6d. 

"A valuable contribution to the religious literature of the day." — Daily 

Telegraph. 

Illingworth.— SERMONS preached in a College Chapel. 

With an Appendix, By J. R. Illingworth, M.A., Fellow of 

Jesus College, and Tutor of Keble College, Oxford. Crown 

8vo. 5j. 

*' These sermons have a rare intensity and reality of tone. . . , It is full 

of strength, and we should be glad to induce any one to read it.'''' — 

Spectator. 

Imitation of Christ.— Four Books. Translated from the 
Latin, with Preface by the Rev. W. Benham, B.D., Vicar of 
Margate. Printed with Borders in the Ancient Style after Holbein, 
Diirer, and other Old Masters. Containing Dances of Death, Acts 
of Mercy, Emblems, and a variety of curious ornamentation. Cr. 
8vo, gilt edges. ']s. dd. 
Also in Latin, uniform with the above. New Edition. Js.6d. 

Jacob.— BUILDING IN SILENCE, and other Ser- 
mons. By J. A. Jacob, M.A., Minister of St. Thomas's, Pad- 
dington. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s. 

Jellett— THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER : being the Don- 
nellan Lectures for 1877. By J, H. Jellett, B.D., Senior 
Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, formerly President of the Royal 
Irish Academy. Second Edition. 8vo. 5^. 

Jennings and Lowe. — THE PSALMS, with Introduc- 
tions and Critical Notes. By A. C. Jennings, B. A., Jesus Col- 
lege, Cambridge, Tyrwhitt Scholar, Crosse Scholar, Hebrew 
University Scholar, and Fry Scholar of St. John's College ; helped 
in parts by W. H. LowE, M.A., Hebrew Lecturer and late Scholar 
of Christ's College, Cambridge, and Tyi-whitt Scholar. Complete 
in two vols, crown 8vo. los. 6d. each. Vol. i. Psalms i. — Ixxii., with 
Prolegomena ; Vol. 2, Psalms Ixxiii. — cl. 

Killen.— THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF IRE- 
LAND from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By W. D. 
Killen, D.D., President of Assembly's College, Belfast, and 
Professor of Ecclesiastical History. Two vols. 8vo. 2$s. 
" Those who have the leisure will do well to read these two volumes. 

They are full of interest, and are the result of great research.^'— ^^tc- 

tator. 



THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 15 

Kingsley. — Works by the late Rev. Charles Kingsley, 
M. A. , Rector of Eversley, and Canon of Westminster : 

THE WATER OF LIFE, AND Other Sermons. 
New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6j. 

THE GOSPEL OF THE PENTATEUCH ; AND David. 
New Edition. Crown. 8vo. ds. 

GOOD NEWS OF GOD. New Edition. Crown 8vo. ds. 
SERMONS FOR THE TIMES. New Edition. Crown 
Svo. 6j". 

VILLAGE AND TOWN AND COUNTRY SERMONS. 

New Edition. Crown Svo. 6^-. 

SERMONS on NATIONAL SUBJECTS, THE KING OF 
THE EARTH, and other Sermons. New Edition. Crn. Svo. 6j. 

DISCIPLINE, AND OTHER Sermons. New Edition. Crown 
Svo. ds. 

WESTMINSTER SERMONS. With Preface. New 
Edition. Crown Svo. ds. 

OUT OF THE DEEP. Words for the Sorrowful. From 
the Writings of Charles Kingsley. Extra fcap. Svo. 3^. 6^/. 

Kynaston.— SERMONS PREACHED IN THE COL- 
LEGE CHAPEL, CHELTENHAM, during the First Year 
of his Office. By the Rev. Herbert Kynaston, M.A., Princi- 
pal of Cheltenham College. Crown Svo. ds. 

Lightfoot. — Works by J. B. Lightfoot, D.D., Bishop of 

Durham : 

ST. PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS. A Re- 
vised Text, with Introduction, Notes, and Dissertations. Seventh 
Edition, revised. Svo, cloth. \2s. 

While the Author's object has been to make this commentary generally 
complete, he has paid special attention to everything relating to St. PauPs 
personal history and his intercourse with the Apostles and Church of the 
Circumcision, as it is this feature in the Epistle to the Galatians which 
has given it an overwhelming interest in recent theological controversy. 
The Spectator says — " There is no commentator at once of sounder judg- 
ment and more liberal than Dr. Lightfoot.'" 

ST. PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS. A 
Revised Text, with Introduction, Notes, and Dissertations. Sixth 
Edition, revised. Svo. \2s. 



i6 THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 

LIGHTFOOT ij^x.)— continued. 

'■'■No commentary in the English language can be compared with it in 
regard to fulness of information^ exact scholarships and laboured atte?npts 
to settle everything about the epistle on a solid foundation. " — Athenasum. 

ST. PAUL'S EPISTLES TO THE COLOSSIANS AND 
TO PHILEMON. A Revised Text with Introduction, Notes, etc. 
Fifth Edition, revised. 8vo. \2s. 

^^ It bears marks of continued and extended reading and research^ and 
of ampler materials at command. Indeed, it leaves nothing to be desired 
by those who seek to study thoroughly the epistles contained in it, and to do 
so with all known advantages presented in sufficient detail and in conve- 
nient form. " — Guardian. 

ST. CLEMENT OF ROME. An Appendix containing the 
newly discovered portions of the two Epistles to the Corinthians, 
with Introductions and Notes, and a Translation of the whole. 
8vo. %s. 6d. 

ON A FRESH REVISION OF THE ENGLISH NEW 
TESTAMENT. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 6^. 

The Author sheius in detail the necessity for a fresh revision of tJie 
authorized version on the following grounds: — I. False Readings. 2. 
Artificial distinctions created. 3. Real distinctions oblite7'ated. 4. Faults 
of Grammar. 5. Faults of lexicography. 6. Treatment of Proper 
Names, official titles, etc. 7. Arcfiaisins, defects in tfie Englisfi, errors 
of the press, etc. " The book is marked by careful scfiolarsfiip, familiai'ity 
with the subject, sobriety, and circujnspection.'^ — Athenaeum. 

Maclaren.— SERMONS PREACHED at MANCHESTER. 

By Alexander Maclaren. Sixth Edition. Fcap. Svo. 4J. 6d. 

These Sermons represent no special scJtool, but deal with tJie broad prin- 
ciples of Cfiristian trutfi, especially in tfieir bearing on practical, every-day 
life. A fezv of t fie titles are: — '■'■ Tfie Stone of Stumbling,'''' '■'■ Love and 
Forgiveness,''' ^^ Tfie Living Dead,''' '^Memory in Another World," 
Faith in Cfirist," ^^ Love and Fear," '•^ Tfie Cfioice of Wisdom," ^^ The 
Food of the World." 

A SECOND SERIES OF SERMONS. Fourth Edition. 
Fcap. Svo. 4s. 6d. 

The Spectator characterises them as '■^vigorous in style, full of thought, 
rich in illustration, and in an unusual degree interesting." 

A THIRD SERIES OF SERMONS. Third Edition. 

Fcap. Svo. 4s. 6d. 



THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 17 

MACLAREN [A.)— continued. 

" Sermons more sober and yet more forcible, and with a certain wise and 
practical spirituality about them it would not be easy to find. ^'' — Spectator. 

WEEK-DAY EVENING ADDRESSES. Delivered in 
Manchester. Extra Fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d. 

Maclear. — Works by the Rev. G. F. Maclear, D.D., Warden 

of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, late Head Master of King's College 
School : 

A CLASS-BOOK OF OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY. 

With Four Maps. New Edition. i8mo. 4^. 6d. 
*^ The present volume,'''' says the Preface, ^^ forms a Class-Book of Old 
Testament History from the Earliest Times to those of Ezra and Nehe- 
miah. In its preparation the most recejit authorities have been consulted, 
and wherever it has appeared useful. Notes have been subjoined illustra- 
tive of the Text, and, for the sake of more advanced students, refereiices 
added to larger works. The Index has been so arranged as to form a 
concise Dictionary of the Persons and Places mentioned in the course of the 
Narrative.'''' The Maps, prepared by Stanford, materially add to the 
vahie and usefodness of the book. The British Quarterly Review calls it 
*^ A careful and elaborate, thoicgh brief compendium of all that modern 
research has done for the illustration of the Old Testament. We know of 
no zvork which contains so much important information in so small a 
compass.''^ 

A CLASS-BOOK OF NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY. 

Including the Connexion of the Old and New Testament. New 

Edition. i8mo. ^s. 6d. 

The present volmne forms a sequel to the Author's Class-Book of Old 

Testament History, and continues the narrative to the close of St. Paul's 

second imprisonment at Rome. The work is divided into three Books — 

/. The Connexion between the Old and New Testament. II. The 

Gospel History. III. The Apostolic History. In the Appendix are given 

Chronological Tables. The Clerical Journal says, ^^ It is ttot often that 

such an amount of useful and interesting matter on biblical subjects is 

found in so convenient and small a compass as in this well-arranged 

volume. " 

A CLASS-BOOK OF THE CATECHISM OF THE 
CHURCH OF ENGLAND. New and Cheaper Edition. iSmo. 
\s. 6d. 

The present work is intended as a sequel to the two preceding books. 
^^ Like them, it is furnished with notes and references to larger works, 
and it is hoped that it may be found, especially in the higher forms of our 



1 8 THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 

MACLEAR (Dr. G. Y .)— continued. 

Public Schools, to supply a suitable manual of instruction in the chief 
doctrines of our Church, and a useful help in the preparation of Can- 
didates for Confirmation.'''' 7"/^^ Literary Churchman ^«_yi-, ^'^ It is indeed 
the work of a scholar and divine, and as such, though extremely simple, it 
is also exti'emely instructive. There are few clergy who would not find 
it useful in preparing Candidates for Confirmation ; and there are not a 
few who would find it useful to themselves as well. " 

A FIRST CLASS-BOOK OF THE CATECHISM OF 
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, with Scripture Proofs for 
Junior Classes and Schools. New Edition. i8mo. dd. 

This is an epitome of the larger Class-book, ?neant for junior students 
and elementary classes. The book has been carefully condensed, so as to 
contain clearly and fully the most i?nportant part of the contents of the 
larger book. 

A SHILLING-BOOK of OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY. 

New Edition. i8mo. 

This Manual bears the same relation to the larger Old Testament His- 
tory, that the book just t?teniioned does to the larger work on the Catechism.. 
It consists of Ten Books, divided into short chapters, and subdivided into 
sections, each section treating of a single episode in the history, the title of 
which is given in bold type. 

A SHILLING-BOOK of NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY. 

New Edition. i8mo. 

A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION FOR CONFIRMA- 
TION AND FIRST COMMUNION, with Prayers and Devo- 
tions. 32mo. 2.s. 

This is an enlarged and improved edition of ' The Order of Confirma- 
tion.'' To it have been added the Cofnmunion Office, with Notes and 
Explanations, together with a brief form of Self Examination and De- 
votions selected from the works of Cosin, Ken^ Wilson, and others. 

THE ORDER OF CONFIRMATION, with Prayers and 
Devotions. 32mo. dd. 

THE FIRST COMMUNION, with Prayers and Devotions 
for the Newly Confirmed. 32mo. dd. 

THE HOUR OF SORROW ; or, The Order for the Burial 
of the Dead. With Prayers and Hymns. 32mo. 2s, 



THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 19 

MACLEAR (Dr. G. Y .)— continued. 
APOSTLES OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE. Cr. 8vo. i^.dd. 

''''Mr. Maclear will have done a great work if his admirable little volume 
shall help to break up the dense ignorance which is still prevailing among 
people at large. " — Literary Churchman. 

Macmillan. — Works by the Rev. Hugh Macmillan, LL.D., 
F. R. S. E. (For other Works by the same Author, see Catalogue 
OF Travels and Scientific Catalogue). 

TWO WORLDS ARE OURS. Globe 8vo. (>s. 

THE TRUE VINE; or, the Analogies of our Lord's 

Allegory. Fourth Edition. Globe 8vo. 6j, 
The Nonconformist says — ''It abounds in exquisite bits of description, 
hnd in strikbtg facts clearly stated. " The British Quarterly says — ' ' Readers 
and preachers who are unscientific will find many of his illustrations as 
valuable as they are beaictiful. " 

BIBLE TEACHINGS IN NATURE. Twelfth Edition, 
Globe 8vo. 6j. 

In this vohime the author has endeavoured to shew that the teaching of 
Nature and the teaching of the Bible are directed to the same great end; 
that the Bible contai7ts the spiritual truths which are necessary to make us 
wise unto salvation, and the objects and scenes of Nature are the pictures 
by which these truths are illustrated. "He has made the world more 
beautijtil to us, and unsealed our ears to voices of praise and messages of 
love that ?night othei"wise have been unheard. " — British Quarterly Review. 
"'Dr. Macmillan has produced a book zvhich may be fitly described as one 
of the happiest efforts for enlisting physical science in the direct service of 
religion. " — Guardian. 

THE SABBATH OF THE FIELDS. A Sequel to 'Bible 
Teachings in Nature. ' Third Edition. Globe 8vo. ds. 

" This volume, like all Dr. Mac7nillan^ s productions, is very delight- 
ful reading, and of a special kind. Imagination, natural science, and 
religious instruction are blended together in a very charming way.''' — 
British Quarterly Review. 

THE MINISTRY OF NATURE. Fourth Edition. Globe 
8vo. 6s. 

" Whether the reader agree or not with his conclusions, he will ac- 
knowledge he is in the presence of an original and thoughtful writer, " — 
Pall Mail Gazette. " There is no class of educated men and women that 
will not profit by these essays J''' — Standard. 

OUR LORD'S THREE RAISINGS FROM THE DEAD. 

Globe 8vo. 6s. 



20 THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 

Materialism : Ancient and Modern. By a late Fellow 
of Trinity College, Cambridge. Crown 8vo. is. 

Maurice. — Works by the late Rev. F. Denison Maurice, 
M.A., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Cam- 
bridge : 

The Spectator says — ^^Few of those of our own generation zuhose names 
will live in English history or literature have exe^'ted so profound and so 
permanent an influence as Mr. Maurice." 

THE PATRIARCHS AND LAWGIVERS OF THE 

OLD TESTAMENT. Third and Cheaper Edition. Crown 
8vo. 5j. 

The Nineteen Discourses contained in this volu7ne were preached in the 
chapel of Lincoln^ s Inn during the year 1851. 

THE PROPHETS AND KINGS OF THE OLD TES- 
TAMENT. New Edition. Crown Svo. \os. 6d. 

Mr. Maurice, in the spirit which animated the co^npilers of the Church 
Lessotts, has in these Sermons regarded the Prophets more as preachers of 
righteousness than as mere predictors — an aspect of their lives which, he 
thinks, has been greatly overlooked in our day, and than which there is 
none we have m.07'e need to contemplate. He has found that the Old 
Testa^nent Prophets, taken in their simple natural sense, clear up many 
of the difficulties zvhich beset us in the daily work of life ; make the past 
intelligible, the present endurable, and the future real and hopeful. 

THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 

A Series of Lectures on the Gospel of St. Luke. New Edition. 
Crown Svo. 9J. 

Mr. Maurice, in his Preface to these Twenty-eight Lectures, says — 
' ' In these lectures I have endeavoured to ascej'tain what is told tis respect- 
ing the life of Jesus by one of those Evangelists who proclaim Him to be 
the Christ, who says that He did comefro?n a Father, that He did baptize 
with the Holy Spirit, that He did risefro7?t the dead. I have chosen the 
one who is most directly connected with the later history of the Church, 
who was not an Apostle, who professedly wrote for the use of a man 
already instructed in the faith of the Apostles. I have followed the course 
of the writer'' s narrative, not changing it under any pretext. I have 
adhered to his phraseology, striving to avoid the substitution of any other 
for his.'' 

THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN. A Series of Discourses. 

New Edition. Crown Svo. 6^. 



THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 21 

MAURICE (Rev. F. Vi.)— continued. 

The Literary Churchman thus speaks of this volume: ^''Thorough 
honesty, revereiice, and deep thought pei"vade the work, which is every 
way solid and philosophical, as well as theological, and abounding with 
suggestions which the patient student may draw out more at length for 
himself y 

THE EPISTLES OF ST. JOHN. A Series of Lectures 
on Christian Ethics. Second and Cheaper Edition. Cr. 8vo. 6^-. 

These Lectures on Christian Ethics were delivered to the students of the 
Working Men's College, Great Ormond Street, London, on a series of 
Sunday mornings. Mr. Maurice believes that the question in which we 
are most interested, the question which most affects our sttidies and our daily 
lives, is the question, whether there is a foundation for human morality^ 
or wheiher it is dependent upon the opinions and fashions of different ages 
and countries. This important question will be found amply and fairly 
discussed in this volume, which the National Review calls ^^ Mr. 
Maurices most effective and instructive work. He is peculiarly fitted 
by the constitution of his mind, to throw light on St. John's writings. " 
Appended is a note on ^Positivism and its Teacher.' 

EXPOSITORY SERMONS ON THE PRAYER-BOOK. 

The Prayer-book considered especially in reference to the Romish 
System ; and the Lord's Prayer. Crown 8vo. 9J. 

After an Litroductory Sermon, Mr. Maurice goes over the various parts 
of the Church Service, expounds in eighteen Sermons their intention and 
significance, and shews how appropriate they are as expj^essions of the 
deepest longings and wants of all classes of men. 

WHAT IS REVELATION.? A Series of Sermons on the 
Epiphany; to which are added, Letters to a Theological Student 
on the Bampton Lectures of Mr. Mansel. Crown 8vo. \os. 6d. 

Both Sermons and Letters were called forth by the doctrine maintained 
by Mr. Mansel in his Ba77ipton Lectures, that Revelation cannot be a direct 
Manifestation of the Lifinite Nature of God. Mr. Maurice maintains 
the opposite doctrine, and in his Sermons explains why, in spite of the high 
authorities on the other side, he must still assert the principle which he 
discovers in the Services of the Church and throughout the Bible. 

SEQUEL TO THE INQUIRY, 'WHAT IS REVELA- 
TION?' Letters in Reply to Mr. Mansel's Examination of 
' Strictures on the Bampton Lectures.' Crown 8vo. ds. 

This, as the title indicates, was called forth by Mr. ManseVs examina- 
tion of Mr. Maurice's Strictures on his doctrine of the Infinite. 



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THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 



MAURICE (Rev. F. T>.)— continued. 

THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 
\os. 6d. 

" The book,'''' says Mr. Maurice, ^^ expresses thoughts which have been 
working in my mind for years ; the method of it has not been adopted 
carelessly; even the composition has undergone frequent revisio7i.^^ 

THE DOCTRINE OF SACRIFICE DEDUCED FROM 

THE SCRIPTURES. New Edition. Crown 8vo. ^s. 6d. 

THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD, AND THEIR 
RELATIONS TO CHRISTIANITY. Fifth Edition. Crown 
8vo. 5j. 

ON THE SABBATH DAY ; the Character of the Warrior, 
and on the Interpretation of History. Fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d. 

THE LORD'S PRAYER, THE CREED, AND THE 

COMMANDMENTS. A Manual for Parents and Schoolmasters. 
To which is added the Order of the Scriptures. i8mo, cloth 
limp. IS. 

DIALOGUES ON FAMILY WORSHIP. Crown 8vo. 6s. 

SOCIAL MORALITY. Twenty-one Lectures delivered in 
the University of Cambridge. New and Cheaper Edition. Cr. 
8vo. los. 6d. 

^^ Whilst reading it we are charmed by the freedom from exclusiveness 
and prejudice, the large charity, the loftiness of thought, the eagerness to 
recognise and appreciate whatever there is of real zvorth extant in the 
world, which animates it from one end to the other. We gain new 
thoughts and new ways ofvietving things, even mo?'e, perhaps, from being 
brought for a time under the influence of so noble and spiritual a mind.^^ 
— Athenseum, 

THE CONSCIENCE : Lectures on Casuistry, delivered in 
the University of Cambridge. Second and Cheaper Edition. 
Crown 8vo. 5j. 

The Saturday Review says — " We rise fro??i the pei'usal of these lec- 
tures with a detestation of all that is selfish and mean, and with a living 
impression that there is such a thing as goodness after all. " 

LECTURES ON THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 
OF THE FIRST AND SECOND CENTURIES. 8vo. los. 6d. 



THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 23 

MAURICE (Rev. F. T>.)— continued. 

LEARNING AND WORKING. Six Lectures delivered 
in Willis's Rooms, London, in June and July, 1854. — THE 
RELIGION OF ROME, and its Influence on Modern Civilisa- 
tion, Four Lectures delivered in the Philosophical Institution of 
Edinburgh, in December, 1854. Crown 8vo. 5^. 

SERMONS PREACHED IN COUNTRY CHURCHES. 
New Edition. Crown 8vo. los. 6d. 

*' Earnest, practical, and extremely simple.''^ — Literary Churchman. 
''^ Good specimens of his si77iple and earnest eloquence. The Gospel inci' 
dents are realized with a vividness which we can well believe made the 
com?non people hear him gladly. Moreover, they are sermons which must 
have done the hearei's good." — John Bull. 

Milligan.— THE RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD. 
The Croall Lecture for 1879—80. By the Rev. Professor Milli- 
GAN, D,D., Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism in the 
University of Aberdeen. 8vo. 9^. 

Moorhouse. — Works by James Moorhouse, M.A., Bishop 
of Melbourne : 

SOME MODERN DIFFICULTIES RESPECTING the 
FACTS OF NATURE AND REVELATION. Fcap. 8vo. 
2s. 6d, 

JACOB. Three Sermons preached before the University of 
Cambridge in Lent, 1870. Extra fcap. 8vo. 3j', 6d. 

O'Brien.— PRAYER. Five Sermons preached in the Chapel 
of Trinity College, Dublin. By James Thomas O'Brien, D.D., 
Bishop of Ossory and Ferns. 8vo. 6s. 

Onesimus.— MEMOIRS OF A DISCIPLE OF ST. 
PAUL. By the Author of "Philochristus." Demy 8vo. loj-. 6^'. 

Palgrave. — HYMNS. By Francis Turner Palgrave. 
Third Edition, enlarged. i8mo. is. 6d. 
This is a collection of twenty original Hymns, which the Literary 
Churchman speaks of as '^ so choice, so perfect, and so refined, — so tender 
in feeling, and so scholarly in expression.''^ 

Paul of Tarsus. An Inquiry into the Times and the Gospel 

of the Apostle of the Gentiles. By a Graduate. 8vo. \os. 6d. 

* * No thoughtful reader will rise from its perusal without a real and 

lasting profit to himself, and a sense of permanent addition to the cause 

of truth. " — Standard. 



24 THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 

Philochristus. — MEMOIRS OF A DISCIPLE OF THE 
LORD. Second Edition. 8vo. 12s. 
" The winning beauty of this book and the fascinating power with 
which the subject of it appeals to all English minds will secure for it 
many readers.'^ — Contemporary Review. 

Philpott.— A POCKET OF PEBBLES WITH A FEW 
SHELLS. Being Fragments of Reflection, now and then with 
Cadence, made up mostly by the Sea Shore. By the Rev. 
William B. Philpott. Second Edition. Picked, Sorted, 
Polished anew. With Two Illustrations by George Smith. 
Fcap. 8vo. ^s. 

Picton.— THE MYSTERY of MATTER; and other Essays. 
By J. Allanson Picton, Author of 'New Theories and the 
Old Faith. ' Cheaper Edition. With New Preface. Crown 8vo. 6s. 

Plumptre — MOVEMENTS in RELIGIOUS THOUGHT. 

Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge, Lent Term, 
1879. By E. H. Plumptre, D.D., Professor of Divinity, King's 
College, London, Prebendary of St. Paul's, etc. Fcap. 8vo. 3J. 6d. 

Prescott — THE THREEFOLD CORD. Sermons preached 
before the University of Cambridge. By J. E. Prescott, B.D. 
Fcap. 8vo. 3J-. 6d. 

Procter.— A HISTORY OF THE BOOK OF COMMON 
PRAYER ; With a Rationale of its Offices. By Francis Procter, 
M.A. Sixteenth Edition, revised and enlarged. Cr. 8vo. los. 6d. 
The Athenseum says — " The origin of every part of the Prayer-book 
has been diligently investigated, — and there are fezv questions or facts con- 
nected with it ivhich are not either sufficiently explained, or so referred to 
that persons interested may work out the truth for themselves.'''' 

Procter and Maclear.— AN ELEMENTARY INTRO- 
DUCTION TO THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. 
Re-arranged and Supplemented by an Explanation of the Morning 
and Evening Prayer and the Litany. By F. Procter, M.A., and 
G. F. Maclear, D.D. New Edition. Enlarged by the addition 
of the Communion Service and the Baptismal and Confirmation 
Offices. i8mo. 2s. 6d. 
The Literary Churchman characterises it as ^^ by far the completest 
and most satisfactory book of its kind we knotu. We wish it were in 
the hands of every schoolboy and every schoolmaster in the kingdom.^' 

Psalms of David CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED. 

An Amended Version, with Historical Introductions and Ex- 
planatory Notes. By Four Friends. Second and Cheaper 
Edition, much enlarged. CroAvn 8vo. Sj. dd. 



THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 25 

One of the chief designs of the Editors, in preparing this volume^ was 
to restore the Psalter as far as possible to the order in tvhich the Psalms 
were written. They give the division of each Psalm into strophes, and 
of each strophe into the lines which composed it, and aiiiend the errors of 
translation. The Spectator calls it '^one of the most instructive and 
valuable books that have been published for many years.^^ 

Psalter (Golden Treasury). — The Student's Edition. 

Being an Edition of the above with briefei- Notes. i8mo. ^s. 6d. 
The aim of this edition is simply to put the reader as far as possible in 
possession of the plain meaning of the writer. '■''It is a gem,^^ the Non- 
conformist says. 

Pulsford.— SERMONS PREACHED. IN TRINITY 
CHURCH, GLASGOW. By William Pulsford, D.D. 
Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 4^'. 6^. 

Ramsay.— THE CATECHISER'S MANUAL; or, the 
Church Catechism Illustrated and Explained, for the Use of 
Clergymen, Schoolmasters, and Teachers. By Arthur Ramsay, 
M.A. Second Edition. i8mo. is. 6d. 

Rays of Sunlight for Dark Days. A Book of Selec- 
tions for the Suffering. With a Preface by C. J. Vaughan, D.D. 
i8mo. Ninth Edition. 3^. 6d. Also in morocco, old style. 
Dr. Vaughan says in the P^'eface, after speaking of t}ie general run oj 
Books of Comfort for Mottrners — "It is because I think that the little 
volume now offered to the Christian sufferer is one of greater wisdo??i and 
of deeper experience, that I have readily consented to the request that I 
would introduce it by a few words of Preface.''^ The book consists of a 
series of very brief extracts from a great variety of authors, in prose and 
poetry, suited to the m,any moods of a mourning or suffering mind. 
''Mostly gems of the first water. " — Clerical Journal. 

Reynolds.— NOTES OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. A 
Selection of Sermons by Henry Robert Reynolds, B.A,, 
President of Cheshunt College, and Fellow of University College, 
London. Crown 8vo. 7^-. dd. 

Roberts.— DISCUSSIONS ON THE GOSPELS. By the 
Rev. Alexander Roberts, D.D. Second Edition, revised and 
enlarged. 8vo. i6i-. 

Robinson.— MAN IN THE IMAGE OF GOD ; and other 
Sermons preached in the Chapel of the Magdalen, Streatham, 
1874—76. By H. G. Robinson, M.A., Prebendary of York. 
Grown 8vo, "is. 6d. 



26 THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 

Romanes.— CHRISTIAN PRAYER AND GENERAL 

LAWS, being the Burney Prize Essay for 1873. With an Ap- 
pendix, examining the views of Messrs. Knight, Robertson, Brooke, 
Tyndall, and Galton. By George J. Romanes, M.A. Crown 
8vo. 5J-. 

Rushbrooke.— SYNOPTICON : An Exposition of the 
Common Matter of the Synoptic Gospels. By W. G. Rushbrooke, 
M.L., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Printed in colours. 
In Six Parts and Appendices. 4to. Part L 3^-. dd. Parts II. and 
III. 7^. Parts IV. V. and VI, With Indices. \os. dd. Ap- 
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Salmon.— NON-MIRACULOUS CHRISTIANITY, and 

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By George Salmon, D.D., Chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathe- 
dral, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin. 
Crown 8vo. 6s. 

Scotch Sermons, 1880. — By Principal Caird ; Rev. J. 
Cunningham, D.D. ; Rev. D. J. Ferguson, B.D. ; Professor 
Wm. Knight, LL.D. ; Rev. W. Mackintosh, D.D. ; Rev. 
W. L. M'Farlan; Rev. Allan Menzies, B.D. ; Rev. T. 
NicoLL; Rev. T. Rain, M.A. ; Rev. A. Semple, B.D. ; Rev. 
J. Stevenson ; Rev. Patrick Stevenson ; Rev. R. H. Story, 
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The Pall Mall Gazette says — " The publication of a volu??ie of Scotch 
Sermons, contributed by vtembers of the Established Church, seems likely 
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in the Church of England^ 

Selborne.— THE BOOK OF PRAISE : From the Best 
English Hymn Writers. Selected and arranged by Lord Selborne. 
"With Vignette by T. WooLNER, R.A. i8mo. 45-. (>d. 

It has been the Editor'' s desire and aim to adhere strictly, in all cases in 
which it could be ascertained, to the genuine tmcorrtipted text of the authors 
themselves. The names of the authors and date of composition of the 
hymns, when known, are affixed, while notes are added to the volume^ 
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— Guardian. ^^ Approaches as nearly as one can conceive to p^fection.^^ 
— Nonconformist. 

BOOK OF PRAISE HYMNAL. See end of this Catalogue. 



THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 27 

Sermons out of Church. By the Author of "John 
Halifax, Gentleman." New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6j, 

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book with no small pleasure. The author is well entitled to speak on 
many of the questions she has raised here. In many ways her book is 
timely.^' — British Quarterly Review. " We may fairly advise young 
housekeepers especially diligently to study the pages devoted to the Servant 
question — but called '■My Brother'' s Keeper'' — a simple^ practical.^ wise 
treatise on a difficult subject.^'' — Spectator. 

Service. — SALVATION HERE AND HEREAFTER. 

Sermons and Essays. By the Rev. John Service, D.D., Minister 

of Inch. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo. 6j. 
" We have enjoyed to-day a rare pleasure^ having just closed a volume 
of sermons which rings true metal from title page to finis., and proves that 
another and very powerful recruit has been added to that small band of 
ministers of the Gospel who are not only abreast of the religious thought 
of their time, but have faith enough and courage enough to handle the 
questions which are the most critical, and stir ?nen^s minds most deeply-, 
with frankness and thoroughness.'''' — Spectator. 

Shipley.— A THEORY ABOUT SIN, in relation to some 
Facts of Daily Life. Lent Lectures on the Seven Deadly Sins. 
By the Rev. Orby Shipley, M.A. Crown 8vo. 7^. dd. 

Smith.— PROPHECY A PREPARATION FOR CHRIST. 

Eight Lectures preached before the University of Oxford, being the 

Bampton Lectures for 1869. By R. Payne Smith, D.D., Dean 

of Canterbury. Second and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. (>s. 

The author'' s object in these Lectures is to shew that there exists in the 

Old Testament an element, ivhich no criticism on naturalistic principles 

can either account for or explain away: that element is Prophecy. The 

author endeavours to prove that its force does not consist merely in its 

predictions. ^'' These Lectures overflow with solid learning. " — Record. 

Smith.— CHRISTIAN FAITH. Sermons preached before 
the University of Cambridge. By W. Saumarez Smith, M.A., 
Principal of St. Aidan's College, Birkenhead. Fcap. 8vo. y. 6d. 

Stanley. — Works by the late Very Rev. A. P. Stanley, D.D., 
Dean of Westminster : 

THE ATHANASIAN CREED, with a Preface on the 
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28 THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 

STANLEY (J^^zxi)— continued. 

' ''Dr. Stanley puts with ad^nirahle foixe the objections which may be 
made to the Creed ; equally admirable, we think, is his statement of its 
ad^jantages. " — Spectator. 

THE NATIONAL THANKSGIVING. Sermons preached 
in Westminster Abbey. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. 

ADDRESSES AND SERMONS AT ST. ANDREW^S 

in 1872, 1875 and 1876. Crown 8vo. $s. 

Stewart and Tait.— THE UNSEEN UNIVERSE ; or, 

Physical Speculations on a Future State. By Professors Balfour 

Stewart and P. G. Tait. Tenth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 

Crown 8vo. 6s. 

"A most remarkable and most interesting volume, which, probably 

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thought on many momentous questions — insensibly it viay be, but very 

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which well deserves the attention of thoughtfid and religious readers 

// is a perfectly safe enquiry, on scientific grounds, into the possibilities of 
a future existence.'''' — Guardian. 

Stubbs. — Works by Rev. CHARLES William Stubbs, M.A., 
Vicar of Granborough, Bucks. : 

VILLAGE POLITICS. Addresses and Sermons on the 
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" The sermons in this book are all worth reading. .... They are full 
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THE MYTHE OF LIFE, and other Sermons, with an 
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8vo. y. 6d. 

Taylor.~THE RESTORATION OF BELIEF. New and 
Revised Edition. By Isaac Taylor, Esq. Crown 8vo. 8^. 6d. 

Temple.— SERMONS PREACHED IN THE CHAPEL 
of RUGBY SCHOOL. By F. Temple, D. D. , Bishop of Exeter. 
New and Cheaper Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo. 4-5". 6d. 
This volu?7ie contains Thirty-five Sermons on topics more or less inti- 
mately connected with evejy-day life. The following are a fezu of the 
subjects discoursed upon: — '■'' Love and Duty;'''' '■'•Coming to Christ;''^ 



THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 29 

TEMPLE (Dr. )— continued. 

''Great Men;'' ''Faith f' "Doubts;'' "Scruples;" "Original Sin ;" 
"Friendship;" "Helping Others;" "The Discipline of Temptation;" 
"Strength a Duty;" " Worldliness ;" "III Temper;" "The Burial of 
the Past." 

A SECOND SERIES OF SERMONS PREACHED IN 
THE CHAPEL OF RUGBY SCHOOL. Second Edition. 
Extra fcap. 8vo. 6^. 

7'his Second Series of Forty-two brief pointed, practical Sermons, on 
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acceptable to all who are acquainted with the First Series. The following 
are a few of the subjects treated of: — "Disobedience," "Almsgiving," 
"The Unknown Guidance of God," " Apathy one of our Trials," "High 
Aims in Leaders," "Doing our Best," " The Use of Knowledge," "Use 
of Observances," '''Martha and Mary," "yohn the Baptist," "Severity 
before Mercy," "Even Mistakes Punished," "Morality and Religion," 
"Children," "Action the Test of Spiritual Life," "Self- Respect," "TO0 
Late, " " The Tercentenary. " 

A THIRD SERIES OF SERMONS PREACHED IN 
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This Third Series of Bishop Temple's Rugby Sermons, contains thirty-six 
brief discourses, including the " Good-bye" sermon preached on his leaving 
Rugby to enter on the office he now holds. 

Thornely.— THE ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECT 

OF HABITUAL CONFESSION TO A PRIEST. By 

Thomas Thornely, B.A., LL.M., Lightfoot and Whewell 

Scholar in the University of Cambridge, Law Student at Trinity 

Hall and Inns of Court, Student in Jurisprudence and Roman 

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him in his conclusions as far as he goes." — London Quarterly, "// is 

marked by an evident desire to avoid over-statement^ and to be stHctly 

impartial." — Cambridge Review. 

Thring.— THOUGHTS ON LIFE-SCIENCE. By Rev. 

Edward Thring, M.A. New Edition, enlarged and revised. 
Crown 8vo. 'is. 6d. 

Thrupp.— AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY AND 

USE OF THE PSALMS. By the Rev. J. F. Thrupp, M.A,, 
late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. New Edition, 2 vols. 
Svo. 2$S. 



30 THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 

Trench. — Works by R. Chenevix Trench, D.D., Arch- 
bishop of Dublin : 

NOTES ON THE PARABLES OF OUR LORD. 

Fourteenth Edition. 8vo. \2s. 
This work has taken its place as a standard exposition and interpreta- 
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in four chapters : — /. On the definition of the Parable. II. On Teach- 
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other Parables besides those in the Scriptures. The author then proceeds 
to take up the Parables one by one, and by the aid of philology, history, 
antiquities, and the researches of travellers, shews forth the significance, 
beauty, and applicability of each, concluding with what he deems its true 
moral interpretation. In the nujnerous Notes are many valuable references, 
illustrative quotations, critical and philological annotations, etc., and ap- 
pended to the volume is a classified list of fifty-six works on the Parables. 

NOTES ON THE MIRACLES OF OUR LORD. 
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In the ^ Preli?7iinary Essay'' to this zuork, all the momentous and in- 
teresting questions that have been raised in connection xvith Miracles, are 
disctissedwith considerable fulness. The Essay consists of six chapters : — 
/, On the Names of Miracles, i.e. the Greek words by which they are 
designated in the New Testament. II. The Miracles and Nature — What 
is the difference between a Miracle and any event in the ordinary course 
of Nature? III. The Authority of Miracles — Is the Miracle to com7?iand 
absolute obedience! IV. The Evangelical, compared with the other cycles 
of Miracles. V. The Assaults on the Miracles — I. Thejezvish. 2. The 
Heathen ( Celsus, etc.). 3. The Pantheistic (Spinosa, etc.). 4. The 
Sceptical (Hume). 5. The Miracles only relatively miraculous (Schleier- 
macher). 6. The Rationalistic (Paulus). 7. The Historic 0- Critical 
( Woolston, Strauss). VI. The Apologetic Worth of the Miracles. The 
author then treats the separate Miracles as he does the Parables. 

SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. Ninth 
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This Edition has been carefully revised, and a considerable numbei- oj 
new Synonyms added. Appended is an Index to the Synonyms, and an 
Index to many other words alluded to or explained throughout the work. 
''He is," the Athenaeum says, '^ a guide in this department of knowledge 
to whom his readers may intrust themselves with confidence. His sober 
judgment and sound sense are barriers against the misleading influence of 
arbitrary hypotheses, " 

ON THE AUTHORIZED VERSION OF THE NEW 

TESTAMENT. Second Edition. 8vo. ^s. 
After some Introductory Remarks, in which the propriety of a revision 
is bi'iefly discussed., the whole question of the merits of the present version 



THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 31 

TRENCH {KtzYi\i\^\iO^)— continued. 

is gone into in detail, in eleven chapters. Appended is a chronological list 
of tvorks bearing on the subject, an Index of the principal Texts con- 
sidered, an Index of Greek Words, and an Index of other Words re- 
ferred to throughout the book. 

STUDIES IN THE GOSPELS. Fourth Edition, revised. 
8vo. \os. 6d. 

This book is published under the conviction that the asse^'tion often 
made is untrue, — viz. that the Gospels are in the main plain and easy, 
and that all the chief difficulties of the New Testament are to be found 
in the Epistles. These ''Studies,'' sixteen in number, are the fruit of a 
much larger scheme, and each Study deals with some important episode 
mentioned in the Gospels, in a critical, philosophical, and practical inan- 
ner. Many references and quotations are added to the Notes. Among 
the subjects treated are: — The Teinptation; Christ and the Sa7naritan 
Woman; The Three Aspirants; The Transfiguration ; Zacchceus ; The 
True Vine; The Penitent Malefactor; Christ and the Two Disciples on 
the way to Emmaus. 

COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLES to the SEVEN 
CHURCHES IN ASIA. Third Edition, revised. 8vo. 8j. ed. 

The present work consists of an Introduction, being a commentary on 
Rev. i. 4 — 20, a detailed examination oj each of the Sen en Epistles, in all 
its bearings, and an Excursus on the Historic 0- Prophetical Intapreta- 
tion of the Epistles. 

THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. An Exposition 
drawn from the writin8;s of St. Augustine, with an Essay on his 
merits as an Interpreter of Holy Scripture. Fourth Edition, en- 
larged. 8vo. IOJ-. (id. 
The first half of the present work consists of a dissertation in eight 
chapters on ^Augustine as an Interpreter of Scripture,'' the titles of the 
several chapters being as follow :— I. Augustin^s General Views of Scrip- 
ture and its Interpretation. II. The External Helps for the Interpreta- 
tion of Scripture possessed by Augustine. III. Augustine's Principles 
and Canons of Interpretation. IV. Augustin^ s Allegorical Interpretation 
of Scripture. V. Illustrations of Augustine^ s Skill as an Interpreter oj 
Scripture. VI, Augustine on John the Baptist and on St. Stephen. 
VII. Augustine on the Epistle to the Romans. VIII. Miscellaneous 
Examples of Augustine' s Interpretation of Scripture. The latter half of 
the work consists of Augustine's Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, 
not however a mere series of quotations from Augustine, but a connected 
account of his sentiments on the various passages of that Sernton, inter- 
spersed with criticisms by Archbishop Trench. 

SHIPWRECKS OF FAITH. Three Sermons preached 
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32 THEOLOGICAL BOOKS, 

TRENCH {kxz\x\i\.^\iO^)— continued. 

*These Sei'mons are especially addressed to young men. The subjects 
are ^^ Balaam,'^ '^Saul,''' and ''^ Judas Iscariot,^^ These lives are set 
forth as beacon-lights, ' ' to warn us off from perilous reefs and quick- 
sands, which have been the destruction of many, and which might only too 
easily be ours.''^ 77z^ John Bull says — ^Uhey are, like all he writes, af- 
fectionate and earnest discourses. " 

SERMONS Preached for the most part in Ireland. 8vo. 
\os. bd. 

This volume consists of Thirty-two Sermons, the greater part of which 
were preached in Ireland ; the subjects are as follow : — Jacob, a Prince 
with God and with Men — Agrippa — The Woman that was a Sinner — 
Secret Faults — The Seven Worse Spirits — Freedom in the Truth — Joseph 
and his Brethren — Bearing one another'' s Burdens — Chrisfs Challenge to 
the World — The Love of Money — The Salt of the Earth — The Arjuour of 
God — Light in the Lord — The Jailer of Philippi — The Thorn in the Flesh 
— Lsaiah^s Vision — Selfishness — Abraham interceding for Sodom — Vain 
Thoughts — Pontius Pilate — The Brazen Serpent — The Death and Burial 
of Moses — A Word from the Cross — The Churches Worship in the 
Beauty of Holiness— Every Good Giftfrojn Above — On the Hearing of 
Prayer — The Kingdom which cojueth not with Observation — Pressing 
towards the Mark — Saul — The Good Shepherd — The Valley of Dry Bones 
— All Saints. 

LECTURES ON MEDIEVAL CHURCH HISTORY. 

Being the Substance of Lectures delivered in Queen's College, 
London. vSecond Edition, revised. 8vo. I2s. 

Contents: — The Middle Ages Beginning — The Conversion of Eng- 
land — Islam — The Conversion of Germany — The Iconoclasts — The 
Crusades — The Papacy at its Height — The Sects of the Middle Ages — 
The Mendicant Order's — The Waldenses — The Revival of Learning — 
Christian Art in the Middle Ages, qt=c. dr^c. 

THE HULSEAN LECTURES, 1845-1846. Fifth Edition, 
revised. 8vo. ^s. 6d. 

This volu77ie consists of Sixteen Sermons, eight being on ' The Fitness 
of Holy Scripture for unfolding the Spiritual Life of Men,'' the others 
on ''Christ, the Desire of all Nations;' or, the unconscious Prophecies 
of Heathendom. ' 

Tulloch.— THE CHRIST OF THE GOSPELS AND 
THE CHRIST OF MODERN CRITICISM. Lectures on 
M. Renan's 'Vie de Jesus.' By John Tulloch, D.D., 
Principal of the College of St. Mary, in the University of St. 
Andrew's. Extra fcap. 8vo. 4^. 6^. 



THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 33 

Vaughan — Works by the very Rev. Charles John Vaughan, 
D,D., Dean of LlandafF and Master of the Temple : 

CHRIST SATISFYING THE INSTINCTS OF HU- 
MANITY, Eight Lectures dehvered in the Temple Church. 
Second Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo. 3J-. (id. 
" We are convinced that there are congregations, in number unmistakably 
increasing, to whom such Essays as these, full of thought and learnings 
are infinitely more beneficial, for they are more acceptable, than the recog- 
nised type of sermons.'''' — John Bull. 

THE BOOK AND THE LIFE, and other Sermons, 
preached before the University of Cambridge. Third Edition. 
Fcap. 8vo. 4^. 6<f. 

TWELVE DISCOURSES on SUBJECTS CONNECTED 
WITH THE LITURGY and WORSHIP of the CHURCH 
OF ENGLAND. Fourth Edition. Fcap. 8vo. ds. 

LESSONS OF LIFE AND GODLINESS. A Selection 

of Sermons preached in the Parish Church of Doncaster. Fourth 

and Cheaper Edition. Fcap. Svo. 3^. (id. 

This volume consists of Nineteen Sermons, mostly on subjects connected 

with the mery-day walk and conversation of Christians. The Spectator 

styles them ''''earnest and human. They are adapted to every class and 

order m the social system, and tvill be read with wakeful interest by all 

who seek to amend whatever may be amiss in their natural disposition 

or in their acquired habits. " 

WORDS FROM THE GOSPELS. A Second Selection 
of Sermons preached in the Parish Church of Doncaster. Third 
Edition. Fcap. Svo. 45. dd. 
The Nonconformist characterises these Sermons as ' ' of practical earnest- 
ness, of a thoughtfulness that penetrates the com?non conditions and ex- 
periences of life, and brvngs the tiuths and examples of Scripture to bear 
on them with singular force, and of a style that owes its real elegaizce to 
the simplicity and directness which have fine culture for their roots. " 

LIFE'S WORK AND GOD'S DISCIPLINE. Three 

Sermons. Third Edition. Fcap. Svo. is. 6d. 

THE WHOLESOME WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST. 

Four Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge in 

November, 1866. Second Edition. Fcap. Svo. 3^-. 6d. 

Dr. Vaughan jises the word ^' Wholesome^' here in its literal and 

■original sense, the sense in which St. Paul uses it, as meaning healthy, 

sound, conducing to right living ; and in these Sermons he points out 

and ilhistrates several of the ^Wvholesome^' characteristics of the Gospel, 

—the Words of Christ. The John Bull says this volume is '^replete with 

all the author'' s well-known vigour of thought and richness of expression.^'' 



34 THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 

V A UGH AN (Dr. C. ^.)— continued. 

FOES OF FAITH. Sermons preached before the Uni- 
versity of Cambridge in November, 1868. Second Edition. Fcap. 
Svo. 3J-. dd. 
The ^'Foes of Faith'" preached against in these Four Sermons are: — 
/. ^^ Unreality.'" II. '■^ Indolence.''^ III. ^^Irreverence." IV. ^'■Incon- 
sistency.'''' 

LECTURES ON THE EPISTLE to the PHILIPPIANS. 

Fourth and Cheaper Edition. Extra fcap. Svo. ^s. 
Fach Lecture is prefaced by a literal translation from the Greek of 
the paragraph which forms its subject^ contains first a minute explanation 
of the passage on which it is based, and then a practical application of 
the verse or clause selected as its text. 

LECTURES ON THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN. 

Fourth Edition. Two Vols. Extra fcap, Svo. 9^. 
ht this Fdition of these Lecttires, the literal translations of the passages 
expounded will be found interwove7t in the body of the Lectures themselves. 
*'■ L>r. Vaughan's Sei'mons" the Spectator says, ^'■are the most prac- 
tical discourses on the Apocalypse with xvhich we o.re acquainted. " Pre- 
fixed is a Synopsis of the Book of Revelation, and appended is an Lndex 
of passages illustrating the language of the Book. 

EPIPHANY, LENT, AND EASTER. A Selection of 
Expository Sermons. Third Edition. Crown Svo. los. 6d. 

THE EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL. For English Readers. 

Part L, containing the First Epjstle to the Thessalqnians. 

Second Edition. Svo. is. 6d. 

It is the object of this work to enable English readers, tinacquainted 

with Greek, to enter with intelligence into the meaning, connexioti, and 

phraseology of the W7'iti7igs of the great Apostle. 

ST. PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. The Greek 

Text, with English Notes. Fifth Edition. Crown Svo. 'js. 6d. 
77^<? Guardian says of the work — ^^For educated young men his com- 
mentary seems to fill a gap hitherto unfilled. . . . As a whole. Dr. Vaughan 
appears to us to have given to the world a valuable book of original and 
careful and earnest thought bestowed on the accomplishment of a work 
which will be of much service and which is much needed." 

THE CHURCH OF THE FIRST DAYS. 

Series L The Church of Jerusalem. Third Edition. 
,, IL The Church of the Gentiles. Third Edition. 
„ III. The Church of the World. Third Edition. 
Fcap. Svo. 4J-. 6d. each. 
The British Quarterly says — ** These Sermons are worthy of all praise, 
and are models of pulpit teaching. " 



THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 35 

VAUGHAN (Dr. C. '^.)— continued. 

COUNSELS for YOUNG STUDENTS. Three Sermons 
preached before the University of Cambridge at the Opening of 
the Academical Year 1870-71. Fcap. 8vo. 2.s. 6d. 

NOTES FOR LECTURES ON CONFIRMATION, 
with suitable Prayers. Eleventh Edition. Fcap. 8vo. is. dd. ■ 

THE TWO GREAT TEMPTATIONS. The Tempta- 
tion of Man, and the Temptation of Christ. Lectures delivered in 
the Temple Church, Lent 1872. Second Edition. Extra fcap. 
8vo. 3^. dd. 

WORDS FROM THE CROSS : Lent Lectures, 1875 ; and 
Thoughts for these Times: University Sermons, 1874. Extra fcap. 
8vo. 4J-. dd. 

ADDRESSES TO YOUNG CLERGYMEN, delivered at 
Salisbury in September and October, 1875. Extra fcap. 8vo. 4J-. dd. 

HEROES OF FAITH : Lectures on Hebrews xi. Extra 

fcap. 8vo. ds. 
THE YOUNG LIFE EQUIPPING ITSELF FOR GOD'S 

SERVICE : Sermons before the University of Cambridge. Sixth 
Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo. 3^-. dd. 

THE SOLIDITY OF TRUE RELIGION ; and other 
Sermons. Second Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo. 3^. dd. 

MEMORIALS OF HARROW SUNDAYS. A Selection 
of Sermons preached in the Chapel of Harrow School. Fifth 
Edition. Crown 8vo. \os. 6d. 

SERMONS IN HARROW SCHOOL CHAPEL (1847). 
8vo. los. 6d. 

NINE SERMONS IN HARPvOV^ SCHOOL CHAPEL 
(1849). Fcap. 8vo. 5J-. 

*^MY SON, GIVE ME THINE HEART;" Sermons 
preached before the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1876 
—78. Fcap. 8vo. 5^-. 

THE LORD'S PRAYER. Second Edition, Extra fcap. 
8vo. 3^. 6d. 

REST AWHILE : Addresses to Toilers in the Ministry. 
Extra fcap. 8vo. 5^-. 

TEMPLE SERMONS. Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d. 

This volume contains a selection of the Sermons preached by Dr. 
Vaughan in the Temple Church dunng the twelve years that he has held 
the dignity of Master, 



36 THEOLOGICAL BOOKS. 

Vaughan (E. T.)— SOME REASONS OF OUR CHRIST- 
IAN HOPE. Hulsean Lectures for 1875. % E. T. Vaughan, 
M.A., Rector of Harpenden. Crown 8vo. (>s. 6d. 

Vaughan (D.J.) — Works by Canon Vaughan, of Leicester: 

SERMONS PREACHED IN ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, 

LEICESTER, during the Years 1855 and 1856. Cr. 8vo. 5^. 6d. 

CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES AND THE BIBLE. New 
Edition, revised and enlarged. Fcap. 8vo. 5^-. 6d. 

THE PRESENT TRIAL OF FAITH. Sermons preached 
in St. Martin's Church, Leicester, Crown 8vo. gs. 

Venn.— ON SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF 
BELIEF, Scientific and Religious. Being the Hulsean Lectures 
for 1869. By the Rev. J. Venn, M. A. 8vo. 6s. 6d. 
These discourses are intended to illustrate, explain, and work out into 

some of their consequences, certain characteristics by zvhich the attaintfient of 

religious belief is prominently distinguished f'o^n the attainment of belief 

upon most other stibjects. 

Vita.— LINKS AND CLUES. By Vita. Crown 8vo. 

*' // is a long time since we have read a book sofoill of the life of a true 
spii'itual mind. . . . Indeed, it is not so much a book to read through, as 
to read and return to as you do to the Bible itself, from which its whole 
significance is derived, in passages suited to the chief interest and difiiculties 

of the moinent We cannot too cordially recofnmend a book which 

awakens the spirit, as hardly any book of the last few years has awakened 
it, to the real 7neaning of the Christian life.^' — The Spectator. 

Warington.— THE WEEK OF CREATION ; or, The 

Cosmogony of Genesis considered in its Relation to Modem Sci- 
ence. By George Warington, Author of 'The Historic 
Character of the Pentateuch vindicated.' Crown 8vo. 4^-. 6d, 

Westcott. — Works by BROOKE Foss Westcott, D.D., 

Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge ; 
Canon of Peterborough : 
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